GT4Brody
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I have recently purchased a new pc, and need to sell my old one, however i have loads of tunes, vids  etc etc i need to wipe off it, and basicly want it to be like a new pc for whoever buys it...
i have a legit copy of xp that i am trying to reload, however as it is a couple of yrs old the edition on there now with updates is newer, and when you boot up the disc is says the version already on the pc is newer reboot the disc and just keeps coming up with this message...
Any ideas how to wipe pc clean and reinstall xp?????
cheers
Mark
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abdus
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start here:
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=281860
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GT4Brody
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Cheers bud, so if i run that killdisk software, and wipe the H/d i can just boot the pc up with the xp disk and it well install it ok??
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Ian
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You should be able to boot to XP CD and delete/recreate the partition. That would leave you with a fresh install with nothing on the drive unless whoever buys it tries very hard to get your stuff back.
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GT4Brody
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Ok this is gonna sound really stupid but how do you boot from the cd?
do you just turn the pc on with the cd in the pc? thts waht i thought??
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Ian
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Yeah although the boot sequence will need to be right. Thats the list of places it will try and boot from, and CD drive must be before hard drive for it to try that first.
Change it in the BIOS if you need to.
[Edited on 05-05-2006 by Ian]
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abdus
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or when booting, press f8 or f12 and it will give you boot menu and choose CD
[Edited on 05-05-2006 by abdus]
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GT4Brody
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Ok i pressed f8 and changed it to boot from cd, went through the notions of reinstalling xp from the disc. It then did the insatallition timer bar, then once complete turned itself off, now when you turn it on it comes up with:
No boot device detected:system halted.
Then when you press f8 or f12 to select what to boot from there is nothing to select.
Any ideas whats up? do i need to reinstall drivers? i have disc for this, if so how?
I cant even boot the pc up now!!
I am useless at this pc lark, any help much apprecited....
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abdus
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did you change your boot sequence in Bios?
If it says no boot device detected, then it is not detecting the hdd...
BTW can you give your pc specifications...
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GT4Brody
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Err not sure if i changed it in Bios, i just pressed f8 and changed it to boot from cd instead of hd.
Not 100% sure on spec, its 40 gig hd, and pentium 4, not sure on processor speed, its a dell system.
cheers for your help....
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abdus
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when you start your pc, press f2 the go to boot sequence and see whether your hdd is first option....then save and restart pc...
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GT4Brody
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Cheers buddy finally sorted it, went to f2 and changed it to hdd as priority device, pressed f10 to exit and save and hey presto, it works fine, much faster now without all the other crap i littered it with eg kazza bittorrent word camera prog, widow washer etc etc etc!!
Thanks very much for your help, wouldnt have had a scooby bymyself
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