Re: going back to an ealier version of xp inst

Grooove wrote:

Dave <davenpat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:R5Wdnd7riuB8qwfanZ2dnUVZ8tzinZ2d@xxxxxx:


He did that and when I asked if he had done a repair or a reinstall,
he said a reinstall. When I asked him if it had done a format of the
drive first, he said no, which I found unusual. That was when I went
for the format drive option, as I have seen my computer go bits up
just before Christmas.



I believe that the majority (if not all) restore disks use a disk image system. What they call a reinstall is in reality just like rolling a Norton Ghost image back onto the harddisk. This replaces everything on the disk and puts it back to factory bland.
In effect this IS a format and reinstall.

So are you saying that it wipes the C drive?

Dave

No experience on this, I only deal with the local free copies of windoze :-)

Dave
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Recovering data from a large SATA after XP reinstall
    ... >> I had prety much managed to kill XP, and needed to wipe and reinstall. ... >> before plugging the disk back in, so it only showed 128GB of the 369GB ... >> still wants to format the drive. ... > Hopefully you have installed the motherboard SATA driver? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: XP Product Key Question
    ... I have an XP disk that is ... > reinstall XP on the first computer long enough to copy all my data ... > and run the recovery CD and restore the computer to factory ... and you'd need to format anyway and lose your data. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: cannot format
    ... >I'm trying to format my c drive and I can't. ... >disk manager. ... >I want to reinstall my Windows Me, because I bought an upgrade to windows XP ... You do it as part of a reinstall of the system after booting the XP ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: can boot xp
    ... If the disk is making strange sounds it's probobly damage and should be ... I will not help to format and reinstall. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: going back to an ealier version of xp inst
    ... he said a reinstall. ... When I asked him if it had done a format of the ... drive first, he said no, which I found unusual. ... I believe that the majority restore disks use a disk image ...
    (uk.comp.misc)