I had to install (for now) the XP without reformatting the drive. I inserted XP CD in the drive while Win98 was operational. So XP installed itself, completely removing Win 98, converting the drive to NTFS and leaving all folders intact (but the Win 98 folders). I think, if I follow your and Alex's suggestion, if I rebooted the PC with XP CD in the drive, I would have an option to reformat the drive first. FWIW now this will do as I am just playing with XP.
Thank you for your input.
>In Windows 2000 and XP, all the required utilities for partitioning and formatting disks are built-in, in the installation CD. You don't need separate command-line utilities. However, I don't remember the exact details.
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>Be sure to try formatting for NTFS, since it gives you some very neat options, not available in FAT32. For example, very small clusters; compress individual files or folders (access is transparent); protect access to individual folders.
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>>I need to install Win XP Pro on a PC which has Win 98. I want to format the drive first and then install XP. It has been long time since I have done and want to be sure that the following will do it:
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>>format c: /s
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>>Or is there a different procedure?
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>>TIA.
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