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Im trying to reinstall XP on a PC
started up from win98 boot disk, gone to FDISK and went to delete the partition that has windows on volume A, but this partition has no volume name to it .. so it wont go through the whole process of reformatting :? anyway of getting the volume name ? .. have i missed something ? .. any links to pages on a clean installation of XP
any help be appreciated
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/honeycutt_02october07.mspx
http://www.theeldergeek.com/clean_installation_of_windows_xp.htm
http://www.theeldergeek.com/xp_home_install_-_graphic.htm
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm
May help you :wink:
:D ty BB some useful links there
You`re welcome, hope it all goes ok. :wink: :D
Its usually the case after you’ve made a new partition , you stick the XP CD in and let it do the rest .. but i couldnt go through the delete partition process because i didnt have a name on the volume drive where XP would install to ..
So the next step i took was to use the format command from the windows boot disk .. but that didn’t work, so after checking the links that BB gave out i fount that you have to d/l the format command to the boot disk, which is simple enough to do.
by typing in .. a:>extract ebd.cab format.com {ENTER}
then the format command will work i.e a:>format c:
so Ive got me new installation of XP and i still got the same flipping problem i have playing some flash , music or media files .. damn PC freezes up :? I know other people have had this problem before playing flash, but this is the first time Ive had it :?
Ive update my flash player and video drivers, but still no joyanyone else had the same problem ? or know how to solve it ?
yep did that .. directX9 .. its usually happens when .. you get a impact of white graphics in flash :? .. i know this monitor is a few years old and its been in the loft for a while, might be a Gremlin in it :wink:
ill have to go searching for this problem might be useful to keep up for others ..
anyway if you see me flashing on n off in messenger Ive been hit by the Gremlin :wink: :lol:
Errr, am i the only person here that installs XP by configuring my bios to boot the comp from the XP installation disc and not the HDD??.
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