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XP Pro Installation - Help please!!!

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by vibesman1803

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Hope someone can provide a solution. I recently upgraded from Win 2K to XP Pro - Installation worked fine for a couple of months. Then had a problem with Norton Firewall 2003 so uninstalled and reinstalled Firewall 2002, problem solved temporarily. Then began having hardware slowdowns and hanging software despite numerous scans via McAfee and System Mechanic, Norton software. So I decided to backup everything and reinstall everything after reformatting the HD. I was unable to reformat, the drive manually but started what I thought was a clean install with the XP Installation disk, as the first attempt failed??? I tried again and had some success;o). What actually happened was that the HD was partitioned and I now 2 and half versions of XP on the HD. I'm not that technical but would would be grateful if somebody could tell me the best way to completely wipe the HD and start over, or how to get back to reinstalling Win 2K. Thanks

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by thechas

I recall having similar problems with my first XP install.

I assume that you have any data files backed up.

I couldn't figure out how to run just from the install CD, so here is what I did.

I booted the PC from a W98 startup disk.

Ran fdisk, and it reported non-DOS partitions, which it asked if I wanted to delete them.
I deleted the partitions, and shut down the PC.

I then re-booted from the XP CD, and proceeded to set up the drive as desired, then went on with the installation.

By the way, you often get quicker, and more answers if you post technical questions in the Technical Q&A forum instead of the Discussion Center.

Chas

by r.ermel

The old Pentium I wth 166MHz was full of old differnt systems on 2 HD?s. I wiped all HD?S with Paragon Partition Manager ( some others also do the same )and repartitioned them.

by r.ermel

Sorry first reply was interrupted

My old Pentium I was full of old stuff on 2 HD`s.
I wiped both with Paragon Partition Manager ( some others do the same ) and repartitioned them.
With 6 bootdisks the cleaninstall was easy and successfull.

by sabrodiesel2000

Hi there, well not to worry things like this are commonly performed by many people. You can re-partition ur hard drives by using FDISK or DM or PATION MAGIC which`ll help u re-partion the drive and then reinstall everything from scratch. Next time you install XP on a system, please make sure if the System meets the least requirements on XP Windows Hardware Compatibility ! thanX

by meranaamjoker_r

If you have backed up all your data and your are ready to format ur harddrive. The best thing is to boot the system through cdrom. Insert W2K cdrom into the drive and boot the system. Follow the setup procedure and when your are prompted to select the partition, delete all the existing partitions and create new ones. Install W2K in one of the newly created partitions.

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