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Old February 26th 05, 12:21 PM
Colin Brittain
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Default Reformatting Hard Drive

Hello I am just bought a second user computer and the original owner seems
to have removed a number of programs and files. The resulting drive is
fragmented and although it has been defragged I would like to reformat the
hard drive so that I can effectively install what software and files I wish.



I would be grateful if anyone could post with how you do it as I have never
reformatted a hard drive before. I have windows XP Home that I will put on
after the drive is formatted but just need instructions on formatting the
drive.



Thanks



Colin


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Old February 26th 05, 12:44 PM
Noel Paton
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Just use the XP Home disk to boot - one of the options on the installer is a
clean install with reformat

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Hello I am just bought a second user computer and the original owner seems
to have removed a number of programs and files. The resulting drive is
fragmented and although it has been defragged I would like to reformat the
hard drive so that I can effectively install what software and files I
wish.



I would be grateful if anyone could post with how you do it as I have
never reformatted a hard drive before. I have windows XP Home that I will
put on after the drive is formatted but just need instructions on
formatting the drive.



Thanks



Colin



 




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