wiping out harddrive

Posted: 07-23-2004, 09:35 PM

Monica Preston

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I have XP home edition and I want to wipe out my
computers hard drive and reload everthing. I cannot
fiqure out how to dump it. In windows 98 you start in dos
and dump from there but you cannot do that inb XP,
please advise

wiping out harddrive

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Re: wiping out harddrive

Posted: 07-23-2004, 09:41 PM

"Monica Preston" <monicaella@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have XP home edition and I want to wipe out my
> computers hard drive and reload everthing. I cannot
> fiqure out how to dump it. In windows 98 you start in dos
> and dump from there but you cannot do that inb XP,
> please advise

just boot from your XP cd

when you go to reinstall, you will have the option to format the drive

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wiping out harddrive

Posted: 07-24-2004, 06:45 AM

Look into FDSIK, reboot, and the format. This can be
done at DOS PROMPT. Then install XP CD into D drive and
reboot .

Go to HELP and review FDISK ,and format. I did this last
year because a HD virus problem.. Let me kNow if everthing
works out OK.

Bill
whitesock95829@yahoo.com

>-----Original Message-----
>I have XP home edition and I want to wipe out my
>computers hard drive and reload everthing. I cannot
>fiqure out how to dump it. In windows 98 you start in dos
>and dump from there but you cannot do that inb XP,
>please advise
>.
>

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