How do you reformat XP?

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Post June 5th, 2004, 3:09 am

This may sound stupid, but i'll need to learn it sooner or later..i'm running a windows xp home..i've also heard that you'll need to create a back up cd before rebooting..so my question is..how do you guys reboot? can anyone teach me? What are the pros and cons of rebooting?
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Post June 5th, 2004, 3:53 am

Do you mean reformat?
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Post June 5th, 2004, 4:12 am

gee..yup. :D
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Post June 5th, 2004, 4:20 pm

Boot to the XP cd and it has a format utitality there you can create partitions and also format those in either FAT32 or NTFS NTFS being the best. You can only boot to the XP cd if it is the full version.
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Post June 5th, 2004, 4:23 pm

this question has been asked 35 times in windows forum alone. Please use the search feature before posting questions. Thanks.

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