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How do you reformat a laptop from Windows 2000 with no A: drive only a D drive and put Windows XP back onto the laptop?
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Assuming your "d drive" is a CD-ROM drive, you can boot from the Windows XP install disk. This disk contains utilities that are very easy to use that will format and prepare the drives for installation of Windows XP. If your computer doesn't boot from the CD, you'll need to go into "setup" (usually by pressing a button when the computer first starts ie "Press DEL to enter Setup"), and find an option that says "Boot Order" or "boot devices". Make sure your CD-Rom is in the list ahead of the hard drive (sometimes listed as HDD or one of the IDE).
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If you install Windows 2000 on an 8-GB hard drive use a single partition for the drive and choose not to use the NTFS file system will Windows 2000 automatically use?
Fat 32
