Need some help on making my pc fresh again!

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manblue

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Basically I want to delete everything and reinstall windows.
Would I format the hard drive first and than install windows?
 
Do you have an XP install disk?

Just insert the disc into your drive, and then hopefully it will boot from that. If not, you'll have to change the boot order in the BIOS.

Once it is in the drive, it will load and then go through the setup, on the way formatting the Hard drive.
 
yes it will boot,
so I should click on install? And it says it will take 90-60 min. So will it ask me after it installed if I want to format the hard drive?
 
manblue said:
yes it will boot,
so I should click on install? And it says it will take 90-60 min. So will it ask me after it installed if I want to format the hard drive?
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It should've asked you before if you wanted to format. What does the screen look like now?
 
the screen should go blue time it loads and there will be lots loading at the bottom of the screen after that it will ask if you want to install windows or repair windows choose install windows then it will ask if you want to quick format or full format choose full format when that is done it will install files then say restarting in so many seconds after restart you will be promted to press any key to boot from cd dont!just leave it and it will start with the normal windows splash screen then it will install windows
 
wow, I finnally reinstalled windows. I am thinking about doing it again because during most of the installation process the screen got stretched out really far lengthwise. So I almost couldn't read anything during the installation and just pressed enter. Is there a way to avoid this? If so, how?
And than when it was done installing it was the same. And that scared me:eek:
After I played with it for a little bit I got the screen back to normal:)

It is almost 4 am :o . I should really go to bed now
 
Heh ok. You don't have to reformat again, if you did mess it up, as long as it is working, you can change your mess ups (ie-making a wrong username or something like that,)
 
When installing windows it uses basic drivers for your video which can make the screen look odd. Later when your'e done you can alter the screen resolution to what you had before.
 
ok, so you can't change any screen settings during installation ? Because it was redicules, I couldn't see about 80% of the screen.
 
and I have another problem when I try to format my C harddrive
the following message comes up:
"Setup is unable to perform the requested operation on the selescted partition. This partition contains temporary Setup files that are required to complete the installation."

Would it be possible to put those temorary setup files on the other hard drive so that I could format it? How would you do it?

Thanks for all your help

My notebook is allready running a LOT fast ;)
 
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