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Harkoliar · 11-26-2002, 10:54 PM

hmmm, well there are a couple of things you must have first and ask yourself ...

1. do you want your information (impt ones) saved? like the my documents and other subdirectory?
2. how many hard disk do you have? (if you have two i suggest putting your old files into the 2nd hard disk for backup.
3. do you have windows installation cd disk?

so what you have to do is to backup the files you need (if you have 2 hard disk.) i dont know how if there is only one hard disk.
enter bios... and (i presume you have a cdrom) put the boot sequence for cdrom first then hard disk 2nd.
then when the option comes out to boot with cd rom support click on that and then format away your old drive c: and reinstall windows.

that is what i do... (NOTE: i use win98 OS.) im not sure if it will work on XP or 2000.

11-26-2002, 10:54 PM	#2
Harkoliar Jack Burton Join Date: March 21, 2001 Location: Philippines, but now Harbor City Sydney Age: 42 Posts: 5,556	hmmm, well there are a couple of things you must have first and ask yourself ... 1. do you want your information (impt ones) saved? like the my documents and other subdirectory? 2. how many hard disk do you have? (if you have two i suggest putting your old files into the 2nd hard disk for backup. 3. do you have windows installation cd disk? so what you have to do is to backup the files you need (if you have 2 hard disk.) i dont know how if there is only one hard disk. enter bios... and (i presume you have a cdrom) put the boot sequence for cdrom first then hard disk 2nd. then when the option comes out to boot with cd rom support click on that and then format away your old drive c: and reinstall windows. that is what i do... (NOTE: i use win98 OS.) im not sure if it will work on XP or 2000. __________________ Catch me if you can..