Ok, so I wanted to do a reinstall of XP. I came here to the forums in the hopes that I would find some advice or tips to help. I did, and the tips worked very well.
Some strange things have been happening to my system that I need help with.
First.....After reinstalling XP, I find that the OEM disk didn't reformat my harddrive, but instead loaded XP over top of the old installation, so now I have 2 XP OS's to choose from when I startup my computer. Fixed that with the restore feature in XP.
Now.........When I start my computer, everything seems to go ok until I get to the blue WELCOME screen. Here I stay. Windows freezes at this point and does not progress any further. In order for me to get into windows, I have to use the Ctrl/Alt/Delete command. Once I do that, it takes a minute, but everything finally falls into place and my system seems to work fine although it seems a little slow.
I'd like to Fdisk my harddrive and reformat so that I can reinstall XP. After checking many times, I'm unable to find Fdisk on my system.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can accomplish this task? I am at my wits end, and if you really must know, I'd like to get everything working before my wife finds out that I've screwed it up.
Thanks for you time and tips.
Some strange things have been happening to my system that I need help with.
First.....After reinstalling XP, I find that the OEM disk didn't reformat my harddrive, but instead loaded XP over top of the old installation, so now I have 2 XP OS's to choose from when I startup my computer. Fixed that with the restore feature in XP.
Now.........When I start my computer, everything seems to go ok until I get to the blue WELCOME screen. Here I stay. Windows freezes at this point and does not progress any further. In order for me to get into windows, I have to use the Ctrl/Alt/Delete command. Once I do that, it takes a minute, but everything finally falls into place and my system seems to work fine although it seems a little slow.
I'd like to Fdisk my harddrive and reformat so that I can reinstall XP. After checking many times, I'm unable to find Fdisk on my system.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can accomplish this task? I am at my wits end, and if you really must know, I'd like to get everything working before my wife finds out that I've screwed it up.
Thanks for you time and tips.