Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: SE England
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Best way to delete all data ?
I have a copy of my windows xp disc if this helps.
Want to clean it, just install the basics again and not have 30 different anti-virus programs or 300 of these different programs I thought would be useful from download.com which then turned out to be a trial and dident do nothing to begin with.
I have tryed to boot my xp cd from start up but this did not work 
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Russ
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Registered: 14th Mar 04
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back up the files you want onto memory stick, or slave drive.
put xp cd in, reboot, go into BIOS.
choose primary bot device as cdrom
when it asks you to boot from cd, press any key
follow instructions to format
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Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: SE England
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I done as you said, cd in rebooted, choose primary device as cdrom, nothing happened after this  
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Ren
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Registered: 16th Oct 04
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1. Back up files
2. Set CD as primary boot device
3. Continue to load up windows
4. Insert CD
5. Reboot
Basically what Russ said, but to my knowledge, after exiting the Bios, not all computers reboot... Most just continue after the POST.
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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When you say copy, what exactly do you mean, this could be the problem.
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Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: SE England
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Its a genuine copy of windows xp home edition.
Still is not working for me.
I turned on the pc
pressed del, this goes to setup.
option boot.
Primary boot set to cd-rom
Loaded windows
inserted the windows cd
turned off the pc
turned it back on.
just loads up normally.
also done the same above but with the cd in from the start.
Must I restart the pc manually if it trys to continue to my 5unz account desktop like normal ?
[Edited on 28-06-2008 by Sunz]
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N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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If the primary boot device is CDROM but the Windows CD won't boot, theres something really wrong coz theres no reason why it shouldn't.
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Toby
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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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just turn the computer on with the disc in it, that whats i did
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Sunz
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: SE England
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I had to press f8 on load up, all sorted now and runs alot better, thanks people.
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