Xp formatting

[Masione]

I have done formats before, on Win98, but I cannot get XP to boot to the boot disk. I built this computer myself from scratch, and have the foppy set to first boot device, but it won't. I got the boot disks from microsoft, and got the 6 boot disks fro XP home, but when i put the first one in and restart, it won't boot to dos, it just boots like I don't have a disk in there at all.

What's wrong?

I am just wanting to a format and clean install.

 

[scsa20]

on my system, when I want to boot from a CD, I have to press F8 onces I see that once blue screen saying the manufatures name and the first boot progress, that lets you set up the boot order...but I don't know how you set your system up...unless you got one of those motherboards that let's you do what I just said

 

[Sonny]

Set your bios to boot from your XP CD. You only need the boot disks if your mobo does not allow booting from CD, which all newer models do.

 

[singwei]

if your xp file system is fat32, you can direct use any win98 boot disk to format your hard disk.

 

[Masione]

I tried using the CD to format it, but it wouldn't let me format C drive, said the setup files needed to cpmplete installation were on there. I will try a Win98 boot disk, I still have one right here.

 

[Sonny]

XP will format for you during installation. You can choose Fat32 or NTFS. Select NTFS if XP is the only OS or Fat32 if you are dual booting.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp