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| 45260 | 2002-04-23 11:21:00 | I need to format my hard drive which has XP on it with NTFS file system. How do I do it. I had a virus that caused a lot of problems and need to put xp back on. Can I just reinstall or do I have to format | Guest (0) | ||
| 45261 | 2002-04-23 11:57:00 | just do a reinstall from the cd (i assume it's bootable) and during setup there is an option to erase the partition. bye bye virus :) | Guest (0) | ||
| 45262 | 2002-04-23 11:58:00 | If your drive is not formatted, when you boot the XP CD, you are given a choice to convert to NTFS on formatting. If your drive is already formatted FAT32, you are given the choice of converting to NTFS. If fact, even if you have a running XP system on FAT32, you can convert to NTFS, with the convert utility (Syntax: convert c: /fs:ntfs) It is preferable though to allow XP to format / convert to NTFS: If you don't ensure the FAT32 is aligned on 4K boundries, you can end up with 0.5K clusters under NTFS. (Can rectify this with Partition Magic 7.0, but messy) If you re-install without de-installing XP, you will 'repair' the existing system. |
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| 45263 | 2002-04-23 22:17:00 | Kevin, Boot from the XP CD - it'll ask you if you want to install or repair, choose install. Then you should at some stage be asked if you want to format your disk, and then it'll format before it installs. HTH Mike. |
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