Wolferz Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 I would like to wipe my drive and start with a clean install of XPOS Home, But I can't access the recovery console because of the password bug. MS Support mentions installing the SP1a service pack. which doesn't seem to help. I did a repair install, but can't seem to get all of the updates to load properly. Can anyone shed some light on this? or am I XPOSOL?
Põdi Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 Why don't you just fdisk the drive and start again?
Wolferz Posted February 12, 2003 Author Report Posted February 12, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Paddy Gregory: Why don't you just fdisk the drive and start again? Procedure? Did that on Milady's PC with XPOSPRO, and it is now a paper weight.
Fractux Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 Well, Wolf, here's what you should do. Backup all the data and the files you wish to keep. [in my case, I dont burn to a CD, I have several partitions. The root partition, C:/, only has the OS and sevral other programs I installed on it. I place my programs and scratch/swap disk on other partitons, but I always have 1 partition that I stores all of my work on [and which I back up every day]. What I prefer to do, which does take more time, is to reistall all my programs on my comp afer a reinstall of the OS. I dunno why, it just makes me feel better . You can get a WIN98 bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com , and use that to get to the command promt then >format c: or use fdisk if you want to change partitions [if you are doing this, i strongly recommend using partition magic] NOTE: Ive never used or done the following, but it is an option. You'd have to go look up how to do this.I've never actually used the restore system state from a backup, so I can't say how well it works. In fact I'm going to go check up on this right now You could go to the backup utility and the backup wizard and go to backup the Systemstate. Save that on a partition you are not formatting. This is a good solution because this way all I have to do to reinstall the OS is to ">format C:" and start the reinstall. Then, once the install is completed you can restore the system state. [ 02-12-2003, 11:42 AM: Message edited by: Fractux ]
Fractux Posted February 12, 2003 Report Posted February 12, 2003 Hmm well I was looking into this and, well, looks like XP Home doesn't have the default Backup Uility installed. So, if you want to restore the System State from a back up you'd firsthave to install the backup utility from the XPhomeCD. Look HERE for how to do that, if you want. Anyways, from what I read there, It's probably just simpler for you to reinstall everything from scratch, ranther than trying to do a system restore from a backup. And if your apps were on the same drive as your OS, then you have to do that anyways.
Wolferz Posted February 12, 2003 Author Report Posted February 12, 2003 Thanks Fractux Most Appreciated.
Emmett.hendrick Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 Fractux - thats a bit long winded. However I agree about backing up your files before starting any of this. However. Stick the XP cd in your drive and start your pc - as long as your CD drive is bootable the XP installation will start. - Do not select repair - but select install instead. The XP install will automatically give you the option of formatting the drive in what ever file system you want - however if you want a truly clean install do not select the Quick format option. Thus the quickest and easiest way to format/re-install XP and strangely it does work (Didn't work too well in NT 4)
Duncan Idaho Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 On some systems, you must have the CD enabled as 'bootable' in the system bios. Many don't come with the CD bootable by default. Furthermore, many systems will not boot off the CD if the HD is bootable. Makes it all a bit tricky. Idaho
Guest JuanFermin Posted February 13, 2003 Report Posted February 13, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Duncan Idaho: Furthermore, many systems will not boot off the CD if the HD is bootable. Makes it all a bit tricky. Idaho What you would have to do is set the boot order in the bios. Tell it to go to the CD ROM first, floppy second and HD third. Keep in mind that you have 2 options to do a "Clean Install". After you boot from the CD, you will have the option to repair or install. Choose install. At this point, you will have the option to either completely reformat the hard drive, or install a new operating system on the old partition. 1. If you want to completely wipe the drive and have nothing at all, choose to reformat, choosing a "Quick" reformat won't check for bad blocks on your hard drive, so it's probably best not to do so. 2. If you want to keep your data intact, DO NOT choose to reformat, simply select the partition that you want to install the O.S. on. At this point it will warn you that you already have an O.S. on either the "WINNT" folder or the "WINDOWS" Folder, usually the 1st. Now you have another set of options, you can either choose to install in the same folder and it will erase the existing OS, or you can name a different folder (Such as WINDOWS), if it's installed on "WINNT" and at startup you will have the option to boot to the one of the two operating systems. It will be listed in the order of the last operating system installed will be first on the list. Hope this helps.
Wolferz Posted February 14, 2003 Author Report Posted February 14, 2003 All fixed now, Fermin Thanks.
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