Hard Drive Formatting ???

j4mes_bond25

j4mes_bond25

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I'm hoping to format the hard drive of one of my cousin tomorrow.

Guess, she's got Windows 2000 OR XP presently & she's got only 8GB of hard drive & I'm hoping to install Windows XP Home Edition using my CD.

She doesn't wanna do any partition, however, wish to have NTSC file system instead of FAT32.

Would it be as simple as simply inserting my XP CD & restarting the PC & getting the option of "whether you wish to format the hard disk" followed by Windows XP setup ??? How about the process involved in chosing NTSC or FAT32 partition ???
 
Do you know that you can only activate XP on one computer? If its been activated on yours then it can't be installed on hers. She would need to buy a copy of xp herself.
 
NTSC...LOL, sorry, that's a new one ^^; NTSC is a TV format, I beleive you meant NTFS...

Anyway, you have the options during the install to format, partition, and everything. It's all very simple. The partitioning part is first. As long as the drive is how you want(probably max size avaliable) then you're fine. Formatting, you typically get options like Format to FAT32 or Format to NTFS. XP has a quick option with really speeds things up, but to really clean the drive off, the regular method would probably be best.

Um, I hope that helps :)
 
You need a new window's CD, or else you can isntall it and only use it for 30 days before it locks you out.
 
johnb35 !!!

johnb35 said:
Do you know that you can only activate XP on one computer? If its been activated on yours then it can't be installed on hers. She would need to buy a copy of xp herself.
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Thanks for your suggestion. I didn't quite think of it, but since the CD has never been used, I suppose I should be OK here. I bought it off the E-bay cos it was a good bargain, thinking I'll sell it to someone else, however, I never got around doing so.
 
The_Other_One !!!

The_Other_One said:
NTSC...LOL, sorry, that's a new one ^^; NTSC is a TV format, I beleive you meant NTFS...
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Guess, while doing lots of video editing, the term NTSC has imprinted on my memory cells to the extent that I couldn't distinguise between NTSC & NTFS ;)

Thanks for your help, in the mean time. Let just hope it doesn't stress my brain cells lot (since my sister often take cares of that ;)
 
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