I would reformat drive c. However, you want to make sure you have drivers for any important components, e.g. monitor, modem/router whichever you use to connect to the internet and any mother board drivers that may be needed. Motherboard drivers, if needed, should have come with the PC or, if what you have is a recovery disk, many of these drivers may be included. If you do not have the drivers, you may want to download them and put them on a cd before you format drive c. Cheers Graham Graham Page Mobile: 07753 607980 Fax: 0870 706 2773 Email: gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: gabriel_mcbird@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: gabriel_mcbird ----- Original Message ----- From: "roger south" <roger.south@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 2:39 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re-installing XP Home Hi All I've done my back ups and all is sorted out so I'm now ready to do my clean re-install. I went to the WinXP disc to Install Windows hoping it would give me a format command. What it gave me was that I couldn't install because the version I have is newer than my disc. I assume this is from the countless critical updates I've installed. It then gave me all sorts of dire threats of what I mustn't do. I can see two options open to me. Uninstall all the updates which would take forever and probably not work anyway. Or, more likely, do a format from right clicking the mouse and then a straight install. Comments and advice would be _most welcome here, please. Roger If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq __________ NOD32 1.1413 (20060217) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq