On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 22:35:58 -0700, Mark G. wrote:

> If I have a hard drive that is purely for data and no registry or
> applications exist on it but yet I am reinstalling my OS (Win XP Pro), would
> you think it is wise to completely wipe this drive provided I have backups
> of the data on it. By wiping and formatting it again in Win XP, doesn't that
> start it again back at square one with no fragmentation or can I just simple
> not wipe it and run a deep defrag program on it? Suggestions here please?
> Plan on starting my upgrade/reinstall tomorrow.

You can find detailed instructions here:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm

or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XP...install.htm#RI

http://pandaman.my.contact.bg/install_Windows.htm

http://cquirke.mvps.org/reinst.htm

Need more info? Search using Google!
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Good luck :)