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This depends mainly on the size of the drive. A HDD that barely has enough room to install XP on will take only a few minutes to format. A terabyte drive may take several hours.
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How do you undo ubuntu and add Windows XP?
Boot from the Windows XP CD and let it reformat the drive. WIndows XP cannot use the native Ubuntu filesystem, so you'll need to reformat the drive anyway and you might as well do it using the XP install disc.
How do you downgrade from Windows XP to Windows 2000?
you must reformat the drive XP is on-Then install 2000 as a new OS. Because it is a downgrade-not reformatting the drive will cause XP to not allow the downgrade.
How do you get rid of a virus when Windows xp will not start?
Reinstall Windows XP from your CD or DVD set and reformat your hard drive. This will erase everything including the virus. Also, get a Mac.
How do you safely reformat hard drive that currently has Windows Vista and Windows XP?
You cannot reformat a hard drive and keep operating system(s) untouched. The point of formatting is to erase all data. There is only one exception, you can reformat some partitions on your hard drive if you have any. If you want to keep your current operating system those partitions must not be system.
Can you reformat a windows 98 hard drive using windows xp?
Generally speaking, yes. You must check the size of the hard drive to see if Windows XP will fit, and note that XP will probably run poorly on a system with less than 256 MB of RAM anyway.
If you remove a drive running windows Xp from your old computer how can you add it to your new computer running windows vista?
If 'vista' recognizes the existence of the drive, you might have to reformat the former 'xp' drive. Don't think it would be wise to have two complete OS's working on the same PC.
How do you reformat windows xp without reboot CD?
you have to boot from something else, whether it be a floopy disk, thumb drive, or setup cd. you can't delete files that you are currently using. if you boot into windows xp you can't delete windows xp.
Virus blocks win xp restore?
Get anti-virus or reformat.
What if your hard drive has 2 Window XP installed how do you remove one if both are in c drive?
you cant just remove one...you would have to reformat the whole hard drive, wipe it clean and then reinstall a fresh copy of windows...
When you need to reformat windows xp but your computer did not come with one How do you do this with out any sort of recovery disc?
u simply cant reformat your hard drive while running windows on that drive, what i mean is u cant reformat the hard drive if it is that verry drive that u are running at the momnet insted u need a copy of windows, put the disc in the CD drive and restart your computer. press f2 i think when it boot's to access the boot menu, boot from CD. u can delete the current partition and create a new one, also u can reformat the drive with your file system of choice, most likely ntfs. hope this helps
My Standby mode is grayed out on a new installation of Windows XP?
Check to make sure that you have more than the minimum RAM required on your computer to use Windows XP. Answer: Check hardware compatibility. if ok. then reformat your drive and then install.
I had a notebook computer and it's double OS XP and Windows 7 now i want to reformat my XP because it is corrupted and reinstall it again but i don't have an external DVD ROM so what can i do?
You can use a flash drive as installation media (google how to make bootable flash drive) or you can use external CD/DVD drive.
