with them either. As you can probably tell, I know just enough about this to be very dangerous.

My initial questions was "How to reformat my hard-drive to re-install XP?", since I had already reinstalled XP without reformatting and still had same problem. The reinstall only took 20 minutes (not the 40 minutes displayed on screen) and my machine is only a 1700+ Athlon. My suspicion is that some parts of the old O/S were retained, and that is why I still have the random craching problem.

Responses all say that XP will format itself. I know this to be true for initial installs, but what if drive is already formatted with XP and you want to "start clean"? I also have no known need to partition my HD (having lived with Compaq's insane partioning methodologies on my work PC - only 2 Gig usable on a 20 Gig drive! - yeah, I found the other 18 Gig, identifiied it as a separate HD and used it), although maybe this is the quickest and cheapest method (reserve 1 Gig of my drive for who knows what) just to force XP to reformat my drive.

Other method is to just buy a new drive. Do a new install on it, and install old drive again later as a slave where I will be able to reformat it from the My Computer menu.

Thanks to everyone for all responses.

posted by 68.42.114...

• OT: reformatting the hard-drive with XP, Roger, Sat, 24 Jan 2004 10:55:38
  • Boot to the Windows XP CD, format within XP setup.., Mark J, Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:39:28
    • No, you need one to reformat the hard-drive with XP...., Roger, Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:51:09
      • No you don't, Trev, Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:41:49
        • Trev's correct!, Mark J, Sat, 24 Jan 2004 15:04:48
          • Correct answer to wrong question!, Roger, Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:20:00
            • there is no reformatting to inital boot, Trev, Sat, 24 Jan 2004 18:36:38
              • Yep, do it all the time with Win2K/WinXP - Easy n/m, jc, Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:10:12
              • Trev is correct-, IrieTom , Sun, 25 Jan 2004 02:04:00
              • Trust us Roger...., Mark J, Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:44:42
                • I have tried the Geek route, but haven't had luck ...., Roger, Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:10:26 <-- Viewing This Message
                  • Roger - Do you have a yellow 99? If so..., Brently, Mon, 26 Jan 2004 17:41:46
                  • Re: I have tried the Geek route, but haven't had luck ...., mlc , Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:09:16
        • You need to change in your BIOS..., EAL, Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:00:27
  • Re: OT: reformatting the hard-drive with XP, Jon906, Sat, 24 Jan 2004 11:24:35

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