General Discussion - format troubles

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format troubles

hambo_12

2003-10-20, 9:02 pm

Hi. I have a little question for you good people.
I have a computer that I want to completely delete EVERYTHING from the hard drive and do a clean reinstall of Windows 2000. Can you tell me the procedure and what I do to perform this? I want one partition in NTFS, and I want no data whatsoever. Your help will be much appreciated...
I also have a CD that is called Compaq Restore disk. Do I use this? And if so, what do I do?

mindmesh

2003-10-20, 9:11 pm

quote:
Originally posted by hambo_12
Hi. I have a little question for you good people.
I have a computer that I want to completely delete EVERYTHING from the hard drive and do a clean reinstall of Windows 2000. Can you tell me the procedure and what I do to perform this? I want one partition in NTFS, and I want no data whatsoever. Your help will be much appreciated...
I also have a CD that is called Compaq Restore disk. Do I use this? And if so, what do I do?

Put the CD in the CD-ROM and reboot.
This will allow you to get the setup menu. (provided your CD-Rom is setup as a boot device). Then just follow the prompts and it will pretty much walk you thru it.

hambo_12

2003-10-20, 9:13 pm

So if I put the Windows 2000 Install CD in the drive and reboot, It will ask me if I want to format the hard drive and all that stuff? Or are you talking about the resotre CD?

gauji

2003-10-20, 10:51 pm

Use the Win2K setup disk.
Just be sure Cmos setup is set for booting the CDROM.

enforcer

2003-10-21, 6:21 am

Make sure you have the full Windows 2000 CDROM, not a manufacturers Restore CD.

Boot form CD and setup will run, after a few basic options it wiil ask you if you want to format a partition/drive, just delete any exist partitions, create a new one to your taste and format it in NTFS.

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