After Erasing the hard drive??

[chemicalfission]

yeah this sounds lame but if i use some software that erases my C: drive on a boot disk, how do i start fresh with just loading Windows Xp on it??? Will all my other devices such as cd-rom drive install itself correctly??

 

[smah]

The windows XP cd is bootable. Change your bios settings to boot from the CD rom first, then the XP installation will start. You can also do partioning and formatting from the installation, so you don't even have to delete everything on your C: drive. When the XP installation asks about Partitioning, just delete the existing partition - XP will take care of the rest.

 

[chemicalfission]

what do you recommend as in software, that would be the easiest to partition part of my drive, i only have about 5 gigs left which would probably be enough.

 

[smah]

Wait a minute - are you trying to completely wipe out the existing stuff on the hard drive and use the entire drive for XP? Or are you trying to keep your existing stuff and use only the existing free space for XP?

 

[chemicalfission]

yes i want to erase everything. then after that and its a blank drive, i want to reload windows and after that put more stuff on, but first if i got the blank drive connected inside, do i put the xp cd in the cd drive and what do i do from there???

to give you more background info, the reason i want to do this is this factory restore cd when i needed to restore from a virus, it (the cd) somehow took 10 gigs and used it for some sh*t i dont even need and i cant erase that data or even find it for that matter.

 

[wolluf]

Details of system & hard drive would be useful?

As Smah advised, you can boot from XP install CD - this wuill give you option to remove any existing partitions and create a new one to install XP on.

If you need more info than this, please post back.