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XP Boot Disk and Fdisk / Format guidance 2

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woody2002

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Jan 3, 2003
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I need some help...

I've had problems with a friends PC (last time I offer to do ANYTHING!!) ;-) I won't go into too much detail as its rather boring, but basically I need to rebuild his PC. I have XP and I try to boot from the CD-ROM, but it comes back with a boot error - I think the CD Drive isn't bootable, so can someone please point me in the direction or give me some advice as to how I can make a boot disk for XP and Fdisk and Format his existing harddrive so I can install XP for him and end this living nightmare! [morning]
 
Go to and download the Windows Xp Boot disks. You can use these to start the Setup from the Windows XP cd that you have there. Then follow these instructions for Formatting/Partitioning the Drive during setup.
Greg Palmer

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Any feed back is appreciated.
 
Cheers Greg - thanks for pointing me in the right direction, all is now sorted! [2thumbsup]
 
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