How to make a fresh install of XP?

[Boaz]

Hey, never done a fresh install of an OS before, but finally gonna get around to installing my XP. So step by step, how do I do it? lol. I mean with whiping it, debugging all that junk. Anyone that could help? Thanks!<BR><BR>Boaz

[Iceman]

Go into your BIOS and make sure you have booting from your CD drive enabled.<BR><BR>Stick in the Win XP CD and reset the computer.<BR><BR>Your computer may come up with a boot menu asking wheter you want to boot from the CD or the hard disk, choose the CD.<BR><BR>Follow the onscreen prompts which will include formatting the data on the drive and it will be formatted into NTFS.<BR><BR>Have fun with your fresh install.

[tenzomonk]

and, i'm assuming you have all the data off of the drive that you need? "whiping" it will do just that. if there's anything you need, back it up/burn it, etc.<BR><BR>oh, and if, for some reason, your PC will not boot from the CD-Rom, then you can download the boot disks from <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=33291&area=top&ordinal=48">here.</a> Assuming, of course, that this is WinXP Pro.<BR><BR>good luck.

[CompSnake]

i hate xp

[ADRAMELK]

XP is a good OS.

[Iceman]

yeah its not too bad