Guest Dan Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 I need your help in understanding how to format and reinstall Windows XP Professional. My friend Jon has limited funds and needs to be able to do this himself. I cannot help him by going there because he lives too far away. I have a dual-boot with 98 Second Edition for old Dos games and applications on a C:\ drive while having Windows XP Professional as my D:\ drive for regular business and most current games and programs like Itunes. I know it is easy in 98 Second Edition to go into DOS and format and then use the start up disk and reinstall the operating system. How is this accomplished in XP Professional. I have had to do an overinstall of XP Professional because of Blue Screens of Death associated with a sound card and other issues. Unfortunately, for me I did not have the original set up password and used a password cracking program that allowed me to reinstall XP but I lost all my data. Fortunately, it is mainly an inconvience of losing access to user name and passwords of an on-line bank account and an on-line credit card account. Anyway, please help me so I can help John.
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: I need to format and reinstall XP Professional for a friend To reformat a partition and install a fresh copy of Windows XP, just boot to the CD. Options to repartition or reformat are part of the procedure. But first... Why does your friend think Windows needs to be completely reinstalled? Does he have a way to back up his personal files, etc.? -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2451DEAE-BC11-47D0-B0BA-DD07C2DA415C@microsoft.com... >I need your help in understanding how to format and reinstall Windows XP > Professional. My friend Jon has limited funds and needs to be able to do > this himself. I cannot help him by going there because he lives too far > away. I have a dual-boot with 98 Second Edition for old Dos games and > applications on a C:\ drive while having Windows XP Professional as my D:\ > drive for regular business and most current games and programs like > Itunes. > I know it is easy in 98 Second Edition to go into DOS and format and then > use > the start up disk and reinstall the operating system. How is this > accomplished in XP Professional. I have had to do an overinstall of XP > Professional because of Blue Screens of Death associated with a sound card > and other issues. Unfortunately, for me I did not have the original set > up > password and used a password cracking program that allowed me to reinstall > XP > but I lost all my data. Fortunately, it is mainly an inconvience of > losing > access to user name and passwords of an on-line bank account and an > on-line > credit card account. Anyway, please help me so I can help John.
Guest Malke Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Re: I need to format and reinstall XP Professional for a friend Dan wrote: > I need your help in understanding how to format and reinstall Windows XP > Professional. My friend Jon has limited funds and needs to be able to do > this himself. I cannot help him by going there because he lives too far > away. I have a dual-boot with 98 Second Edition for old Dos games and > applications on a C:\ drive while having Windows XP Professional as my D:\ > drive for regular business and most current games and programs like Itunes. > I know it is easy in 98 Second Edition to go into DOS and format and then use > the start up disk and reinstall the operating system. How is this > accomplished in XP Professional. I have had to do an overinstall of XP > Professional because of Blue Screens of Death associated with a sound card > and other issues. Unfortunately, for me I did not have the original set up > password and used a password cracking program that allowed me to reinstall XP > but I lost all my data. Fortunately, it is mainly an inconvience of losing > access to user name and passwords of an on-line bank account and an on-line > credit card account. Anyway, please help me so I can help John. http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html - Clean Install How-To http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Reinstalling_Windows - What you will need on-hand Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers http://www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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