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Old 10-05-2002, 05:42 PM   #1
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Cool upgrade to xp from me

ok frist off i did do a cleam install on this thing not one time but about 8 or 9 time this week a lone each time it would work just fine untill the next day on boot up it start takeing up to five mins to load up ever thing ,and afther down loading the serivce pack -1 it is now doing just fine now for over 20 hours . but it sure took up a lot of hard driver space.
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Old 10-05-2002, 09:16 PM   #2
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Go to your HD maker's website a utility that will run diagnostics and low level format on your HD. If your HD is not defective after running diagnostics then format the HD with the same utility. Insert your XP CD and restart. Let XP format and clean install on HD.
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Old 10-06-2002, 06:57 PM   #3
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