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Re-installing WinXP

DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
edited June 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
So my wife and I came to my parents' place for the weekend. Something is seriously screwed up with one of their computers. Somehow, they downloaded a virus instead of a driver for their printer. Nothing really works, their McAfee expired the day before they downloaded this thing. FUBAR-ed.

We eventually manage to find all of the CDs that came with their computer, and they want me to re-install Windows XP. I put the CD, hit F12, choose boot from CD etc etc and eventually wind up at screen asking me where to install XP. C drive has a partition in it. Do I delete this partition?

Can someone walk me through this?

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Yes, delete the partition (you will lose ALL DATA) and it will ask you twice if you are sure.

    Once you've done that then you will highlight, presumably, the large "unpartitioned space" option and press C to create partition, just go with the maximum allowed partition. When you do this you will get two options (format quick, or just format). You MIGHT want to go with the regular format which takes a while but it will purge that drive of all data whereas I believe Quick Format simply removes the tables.

    Then you will go through the WinXP install process, a few reboots and an hour later you will be up and running.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    I have a similar problem, I have one hard drive in two partitions one has XP the other has all my games and crap. I want to get rid of the one with all my games and merge it with the XP partition, is this possible without losing the XP part?

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    If I recall correctly the XP install disk has a utility that can add to existing NTFS partitions.

    I do not know the name of it off hand though.

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  • Fizban140Fizban140 Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    I lost my XP disc.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Fizban140 wrote: »
    I have a similar problem, I have one hard drive in two partitions one has XP the other has all my games and crap. I want to get rid of the one with all my games and merge it with the XP partition, is this possible without losing the XP part?

    GPartEd will do this (Use the LiveCD, delete the second partition, expand the first to fill all available space), but If you've installed software to the partition you're deleting XP is likely to freak out somewhat.

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