Can I do a clean XP Home install over an existing XP Home?

We have been using XP Home succesfully for six months.

I want to reformat our C:\ that presently has XP Home on it and start fresh.

We just had our mother board, CPU, and power supply replaced and now it's taking 4 minutes at the blue screen "Windows is starting up. "

We have the original Win98 CD plus a Win98 SE upgrade CD and an XP Home upgrade CD.

I have a separate, mostly empty D:\ hard drive if it's needed for temp during the install.

Is this going to be ok to do?

Thanks,


Kerry

 

format xp system

Formating using the Recovery Console:
Boot your system with the win xp cd and select R at the welcome screen. At the command prompt, type

format c:/fs:ntfs

where c is the drive you want to format.

hope this works...

take care
dave
daj0kker@hotmail.com

http://www.siestakeycomputing.com

 

Hi daj0kker:

Thank you.

I'm hoping I won't have to do this but this morning I got a 5 minute hangup at the very first (Compaq's) splash screen, so I tried again and got a black screen with the words "162 System options not set" and then a RAM count and then a message that passed too fast to read and then it started fine. Confusinger and confusinger.

The only other problem is no sound. The "In house tech" tech was a beginner.

Thanks,


Kerry