Erase HD?

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XP Pro, its brand new, 4-5 months, running SP2, it boots fine, but it freezes and errors and I want to reinstall and see if it is a hard ware problem or software...
Yan
 
Go into disk management tool in XP (under administrative tools somewhere). This will tell you what file system you are using.

If you are using FAT32, you can use a normal boot disk (containing format.com) to boot to DOS. Then at the A: prompt, type FORMAT C:/s/q
Make sure though that boot disk contains CDROM drivers if your XP CD is not bootable for any reason.

If you are using NTFS, I think you can just boot XP from CD & it should give you option to reformat the C partition before installing.

If it doesn't, boot from boot disk (containing fdisk & format). run fdisk & delete the partitions. (NTFS are recognised as NON-DOS partitions in fdisk). Recreate partitions but do not format, XP will do this for you on the reinstall & give you the option to select NTFS/FAT32 etc
 
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