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[deck99]

Hey guys and gals,
I putting together a new system (all new parts). This time I am using WinXP Home. Do I need to do any special partition and or format on a new hard drive if I use XP? How does it work?

Thanks,

Deck99

[bailey]

no you should not have to do anything special, just boot to the cd and follow the instructions.
xp is a very good os, you may need to get some newer drivers for some hardware that you use, but not as a general rule ( camers, scanner, some printers and some cdrw programs)

I have bee useing for some time now and like it very much.

[wolfie]

much easier to put in then 98. xp pretty much does everything for you. just read and do what it tells you to do. piece of cake.

wolfie

[mutant-goldfish]

I am gonna start my first build in a few and will most probably be installing win xp home.

Just to clarify- do you not have to do fdisk or anything like that on a new hard disk before installing xp? What if I wanted to create partitions- will the xp install cover that?

Thanks (and please excuse my stupidity... I'm new at this )

Goldfish

[wolfie]

mutant-goldfish

yep. just boot from the xp cd and it will do the rest.

[glc]

Create the first partition when it prompts during setup - then after XP is completely installed you use Disk Management to do the rest of them.

[deck99]

Thanks for your help everyone!

deck99

[mutant-goldfish]

Ditto!