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10-17-2005, 01:59 PM
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Reformatting HD and reinstalling Win XP
Hi everyone: I'm having mega problems trying to reformat my HD and reinstall Windows. I have a registered Win XP home addition disk that is an upgrade disk but even when I've gone into BIOS and told it to boot from the CD, it just goes into Windows. If I try to go into the command line it tells me that I have a newer edition of Windows than the disk and won't let me reformat the drive. I've decided to just try a clean reinstall because my TCP/IP stack and probably Winsock is corrupted along with a bunch of other thing which has been causing my system to hang and crash repeatedly. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!
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10-17-2005, 02:23 PM
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Download the hard drive manufacturer's setup software or diagnostic utility and use the zero fill/low level format option. This will totally wipe the drive.
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10-17-2005, 03:13 PM
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I had this problem when trying to re-install/format a friend's Dell. Same message that there was a newer version already installed. I just went into control panel and deleted out the service Pack ll and then it installed OK. Might be worth a try.
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