Reinstalling XP / Formatting disk.

Question

Ok, i have a problem.
My laptop was packed and running slow, so I wanted to reinstall Windows XP. My disk has two partitions. I formatted D: and then tried to reinstall XP on my C:
This didn't work as I thought. And so now I want to format my c: or get my laptop back to the state when I just bought it.
Can someone help me, I don't know how to get it back to the factory status.

Thankyou.

dunedin · Answer

Hello :smileyhappy:

If you have an actual XP installation CD and not just a Recovery Disk, here are very good tutorials with screenshots to help you. The format is done by XP during the reinstall.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.theeldergeek.com/xp_pro_install_-_graphic.htm

sparkenh · Answer

@Gidi wrote: Can someone help me, I don't know how to get it back to the factory status. Thankyou. If you still have the Dell System Restore partition, go here for help.

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Reinstalling XP / Formatting disk.

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