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how do i go about wiping clean my C drive on pc?
Can anyone please tell me how you go about wiping clean my C Drive and reloading WINDOWS XP Is there a book that you can recommend that takes you through step by step instructions or is it just too hard for the laymen to do?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Graham
PS I have removed every thing that I can safely do but the computer keeps saying hard drive is full. -
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Do you have a XP disk? if so have a look here
If you have a restore disk then just put it in and it should walk you through it. you will need to put the cd in and reboot, or it may be on a partition on your hard drive.
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First – make sure you have, or can source all the drivers you are likely to need for YOUR system. eg. Video, sound, network, printers…
Then put in your XP disk & boot from CD*
* you might have to alter the boot sequence in your BIOS – very easy.
As it’s first powering up press (repeatedly) ‘DEL’ on most machines, although it’s ‘ENTER’ on IBM’s…and ‘F2’ on some others and you’ll be greeted by a blue screen / load of technical looking stuff.Hunt around & make it so it boots CD first.
Reboot & follow instructions (windows blue screen – white text).
When given the option to install another version of XP or deleted the partition…delete the partition. Confirm with ‘D’…then ‘L’ if memory serves.
Then follow instructions to FORMAT as NTFS…and windows will start to install once it’s formatted the disk.Should take about 35-45mins to get back to a full windows setup…then another half hour doing your drivers etc.
Dave
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A big thank you to Dave and Nick, for your help ,I did not know where to start.
All the best to you both.
Graham
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