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July 28, 2006 at 05:50 AM
rivrbyte

reformat HD/Reinstall WinXP

by rivrbyte . Updated 20 years ago

Hi,

I have Win XP Home Edition, and I installed it using the FAT32 File System on my HD. Everyone is telling me I should not use the Fat32 system,but the NTFS.

Is there any reason I should revert to the “other NTFS” File system if I’m planning on wanting to wipe out the hard drive and re-install my Windows XP ?

I have programs on the Puter that will not un-install and I have used “Your Un-installer 2006” to try to uninstall, but it just won’t go away, and a few other Pgms that are just frustrating me. I need to do a Clean Up and get rid of a lot of unused Programs!

I have created a MS DOS Startup disk ( Like I did when I installed Win Xp over Win98) and wondered if this could work to reformat the hard drive and somehow change the FAT32 to the other file system using the Windows XP.

I did go to another site to try to download a Windows XP reformat tool,but that was not successful. Thank you.

PS. Question? Is either the Corporate or Professional XP version worth using over the Home Edition? Pros and Cons? Thank you again!

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