formatting/whipeing hard drive help

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there are 3 operating systems on my husbands pc and it also has a small
partition i cannot figure out how to wipe the drive compleatly clean and
start fresh please help....

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage (More info?)

To do a clean install boot the Windows XP install CD-Rom. When you get to
the point, delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions found. After you
delete the partition(s) abort the install, then again restart the pc booting
the CD-Rom to avoid unexpected drive letter assignments with your new
install.

Be sure to apply SP2 or at least these two below to your new install before
connecting to any network.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads [...] laylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/s [...] 3-043.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/s [...] 3-049.mspx

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

"formattingdummie" wrote:
| there are 3 operating systems on my husbands pc and it also has a small
| partition i cannot figure out how to wipe the drive compleatly clean and
| start fresh please help....