Reinstall Windows XP?

7 thoughts on “Reinstall Windows XP?”

1. ritesh k says:

   May 12, 2010 at 9:18 pm

   Yes..Formating the hard disk is a good option…

   I would recommend to copy all your important data from primary drive(partition) to some other drive( partition). If you dont have partion then create one before formatting.

   Let the set up format the primary driver (C:/) completly with your fresh window installation.

   all the best 🙂

2. Tony P says:

   May 12, 2010 at 9:18 pm

   have you used Disc Cleaner and deleted all your cookies and history first there is a lot you can do before reinstalling your OS, I do mine each week and keep it clean and easy to use

3. DKing says:

   May 12, 2010 at 9:18 pm

   If you can’t be bothered to back up your files, the best thing to do is install another HDD to put a fresh copy of windows on. I would personally go through Program Files and Windows directories and take out everything you need and delete the rest.

4. debbs_lfc says:

   May 12, 2010 at 9:18 pm

   You answered your own question lol. Just do what you have said. To speed up windows remove any unwanted programs, and check how many programs you have running on startup. Also, defragment your hardrive and do a diskcleanup now and then to compress and tidy up files and folders.

   Below are few links to help.

5. chezzrob says:

   May 12, 2010 at 9:18 pm

   look at the you tube video, i just found it today

   Partition the Hard drive – reasons
   ========================
   Firstly C drive is compulsory for the Operating System (XP) (Vista), and you install all your programs on C drive.

   D drive is made for YOUR files.

   What you do is MOVE my documents to D drive.

   When you download music, videos, pictures from your camera or make any MS Office documents or save emails, you save it on D drive.

   The reason for this is to do with
   1. Hard drive failure – usually a failed hard drive will not boot, but can often be seen when hooked up as a slave.
   So when you get your new hard drive up and running, you can copy D drive from your old to your new. You haven’t lost anything.

   2. Virus. Normally virus are programmed to infect C drive. If you get a bad virus all that has to be done is format the C drive partition then re install you OS and programs from disks.
   You haven’t lost your personal stuff because its on D drive.

   3. Scanning your C drive for virus or spyware. These malware programs live on C drive. It is not necessary to scan D drive. It is a lot quicker to scan a small partition than a large hard drive.

   Now you can see the above is compromised by the fact that programs get updates and lots of programs are installed from the net. Therefore if you had to wipe out C drive it be hard to get it back to how it was.
   To remedy this we use Norton Ghost to image C drive and store the Image on D drive.
   (Vista requires a version 10 or newer of Ghost).

   If you get a bad virus you just use the Ghost disk to boot up on, then copy the image stored on D drive back over C drive.
   It takes less than 30 mins to rebuild C drive.
   Also you may have this running on say a 250 gig HDD, and it fails. You buy a new 400 gig HDD and install both into you computer, the failed one as a slave.
   Using the ghost disk to boot up on, you partition the 400 C drive to 30 gig (XP)and the remaining to D drive. Then you repack C drive from the image. Then Copy your old D drive files to your new one. In a time of less than 1 hour and it’s all running. The image loads all the drivers, OS everything.

   Then you update new images of C drive every few months so that the one stored on D drive is not to far out of date.

   On XP and Vista you create C drive to a maximum of (XP 30 gig, Vista 40 Gig) It doesn’t need to be any bigger, so don’t make C drive to big as you will not use it.
   Type DISKPART in windows help file
   also Disk manager.
   click the desktop, hit Fn1 key.

   This is another point of view that is very interesting
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u_DHseKdu0

   Vista:
   http://www.lytebyte.com/2007/02/19/how-to-partition-in-windows-vista-extend-and-shrink/

6. Kunal says:

   May 12, 2010 at 9:18 pm

   just select repair option
   or just select keep previous settings intact option
   when u use windows xp bootable cd for installing

7. coldwarkid79 says:

   May 12, 2010 at 9:18 pm

   windows doesnt just slow because of a bloated registry…so reinstalling will only help a little bit…i would go through a whole lot of other processes to get your pc to be quick again

   do a disk clean up then go through all folders and delete any files that you dont want need anymore…then go to remove programs and uninstall any prgrams you dont use anymore…then go through and run several spy and virus softwares to clean those up…then empty your recycle bin and make sure everything really did get cleaned off and do a disk defragmenting…not with the windows fragger but with diskkeeper or any other good software thats out there…then restart your pc and see how it performs now

   edit: if you really think its the registry get a little software calle registry cleaner….it will clean up your registry and saves you the hassle to have to reinstall xp

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