Install clean Windows XP on formatted drive?

3 thoughts on “Install clean Windows XP on formatted drive?”

1. Hoang T says:

   June 13, 2009 at 4:33 am

   If its a freshly formatted drive then you can simply install the windows XP and change your boot preferences (in your BIOS) to make your newest hard drive the 1st one to boot. Hope that helps.

2. ghazanfar a says:

   June 13, 2009 at 4:33 am

   You must have a bootable XP CD to go ahead.
   Good Luck

3. devDude says:

   June 13, 2009 at 4:33 am

   If your installing from the XP CD, make sure in the computers BIOS says that it tries to load data from the CD drive before it checks the hard drive.

   You've already stated your hard drive is newly formatted. So you should be ok.

   P.S.
   If this is a new drive you are putting in your machine (an existing one is in there) and you want to boot from it once you have installed windows XP, you must set the new partition you install windows XP on as an ACTIVE partition. Setting a partition active will basically tell the computer which partition you want to boot from.

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