st4rk
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- 7 May 2006
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Hi, i decided to completely reformat and reinstall my dell dimension after reading about all the bloat ware and the fact that my second hd is faster, i installed xp pro from a friends disk, i have home edition but i thought pro would be better. installation went fine but then i realised it was for a laptop and it seemed to be able to do less... i don't know if that is correct - but device manager showed no monitor so i thought that this was not right. now i want to reinstall home edition to the same disk and i'm wondering how to do it best, i need to reformat it and reinstall but you cannot reformat the boot drive... I don't know if there is a best way to do this, the only way i can think off is to install xp to my D drive and then boot from that and then uninstall on c drive then repeat that process.... i hope someone has a better suggestion