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My friend wants me to reformat his computer like its brand new. I put a new windows XP on it, and put all drivers, it ran like brand new except that the hard drive is 90% full already. My other friend said delete the partition but there is only 1, it is the primary, and it says I cannot do that because I need the files in the temporary folder (When I try from the new XP installation)
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On a fresh install? Shouldnt be anywhere near that much... start by using the windows install cd/dvd to delete the partition, then create a new partition.
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Boot to the Windows CD and install windows. If you start the install from within windows you can't format the drive.
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