[muglo] Re: OT-installing Windows 2000 on PC

Theresa,

Reformatting involves _completely_ erasing your hard drive of whatever 
is on it and then re-installing all software on to a 'clean' drive.  If 
you have any files, programs or documents you want to keep you would 
have to make a back up of them first.  If there are programs on the 
drive for which you do not have access to the original disks then they 
will be gone too.  Usually drives are formatted as one partition (the 
whole drive); some people prefer to partition (or divide into smaller 
parts) their drives e.g taking a 120 Gig drive and dividing it into an 
80 Gig partition and a 40 Gig partition (100G & 20G or 3 x 40G etc) .  
There are advantages to formatting a drive either way, depends on your 
preference. Out of necessity my current drive has 3 partitions.

Following the install instruction on your Windows 2000 CD installation 
disks will likely let you erase and reformat the whole drive and you 
can build up the system from there adding the programs that you need.  
You might want to download all the update files from Microsoft for Win 
2000 to a CD using another computer and installing them before allowing 
the re-formatted computer to be hooked up to the internet and ensure 
that you have your anti-virus software installed with its latest update 
files also.  You can anticipate all of this taking several hours of 
your time.

It may be possible to boot from another system and delete and 
re-install a system on to an existing drive.  I'm not sure if programs 
would function properly because of windows registry system which would 
likely need to be updated during the process.  On the Mac side it is 
relatively easy to install a clean 'system' folder and files although 
not entirely painless.

Are there other members who deal with Windows installations that could 
be of assistance e.g. a good reference on the steps involved, website, 
book at the library etc.

Martin


On May 20,2007, at 2:35 PM, Thomas Davey wrote:

> When you install Windows 2000 it will ask what partition to use. just
> delete all that is there and then create a new partition and then
> Windows 2000 will format it, thus deleting your old stuff.
>
>> Haven't a clue what reformatting means.
>>
>> But thanks anyway.
>>
>>
>> On May 19, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Tee Cashmore wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 19-May-07, at 11:00 AM, Theresa Roth wrote:
>>>  How do I delete the existing Windows XP and install
>>> Windows 200 on it?
>>>
>>> HELP!?!
>>>
>>> Theresa
>>
>> You're asking the wrong crowd, but surely you can just reformat the
>> drive!
>> TTFN,    TeeC

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