- Wiping Hard Drive, Need Help w/ XP
- Posted by nitro on January 1st, 2006
Hello all. I am planning on wiping my hard drive soon and was wondering if I
can reinstall windows XP just by using an update disk? Here is my whole
situation:
I am planning on flattening my current hard drive in my Dell computer. From
the factory Microsoft Windows ME was installed. Since then I have updated to
Windows XP. My question is this; will I be able to install Windows XP using
the update disk that I purchased with out also reinstalling Windows ME or do
I need a full version of Windows XP? Please let me know ASAP. Thanks for your
time.
- Posted by Pegasus \(MVP\) on January 1st, 2006
"nitro" <nitro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1AF54C23-C4A5-4A99-B2E3-768D0579282E@microsoft.com...
> Hello all. I am planning on wiping my hard drive soon and was wondering if
I
> can reinstall windows XP just by using an update disk? Here is my whole
> situation:
>
> I am planning on flattening my current hard drive in my Dell computer.
From
> the factory Microsoft Windows ME was installed. Since then I have updated
to
> Windows XP. My question is this; will I be able to install Windows XP
using
> the update disk that I purchased with out also reinstalling Windows ME or
do
> I need a full version of Windows XP? Please let me know ASAP. Thanks for
your
> time.
>
>
The WinXP installation process will prompt you for the qualifying
CD, i.e. the WinME CD in your case.
- Posted by Rich Barry on January 1st, 2006
Nitro, you have to start the clean install from your existing version of
XP.
10b If the hard drive or partition has a previous installation
of XP you want to remove, choose to delete the partition by pressing "D".
You will then be prompted to create a new partition in the empty space. This
will remove all data from the deleted space.
Go here for complete instructions
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
"nitro" <nitro@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1AF54C23-C4A5-4A99-B2E3-768D0579282E@microsoft.com...
> Hello all. I am planning on wiping my hard drive soon and was wondering if
> I
> can reinstall windows XP just by using an update disk? Here is my whole
> situation:
>
> I am planning on flattening my current hard drive in my Dell computer.
> From
> the factory Microsoft Windows ME was installed. Since then I have updated
> to
> Windows XP. My question is this; will I be able to install Windows XP
> using
> the update disk that I purchased with out also reinstalling Windows ME or
> do
> I need a full version of Windows XP? Please let me know ASAP. Thanks for
> your
> time.
>
>
