Clean Install From OEM Recovery Disk!?
Jan 5, 2007
First off I've searched this but haven't found the relavent information I'm looking for. Chances are I've looked or searched in the wrong places.I've heard I need to boot from disk then format, to do a clean XP install when do I format and how.Also, I'm going to be getting more RAM very shortly, probably tomorrow, and I think this is the majority of the slow, lagging problems I've been having with the laptop (only 256 now) and I was wondering if I should hold off on the re-install untill I put the new RAM in there or does that not matter.
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Mar 22, 2006
I recently formatted my drive and am trying to reinstall my WIndows XP Pro.When I put in the CD and the PC starts up I receive a message: "Invalid System Disk. Replace the disk and then press any key"I have already changed my BIOS so that it boots from the CD first. Not sure what the problem is? prior to that error message, it states that I should "press any key to boot from CD"...when I try to push a key nothing happens. I know my keyboard works since I used it to enter the BIOS.
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Apr 24, 2005
Does Windows XP self boot and copy the necessary system files or do you still need a floppy disk drive like previous windows versions?
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Oct 4, 2005
Just wondering if you can do a clean install of Win XP Pro using the upgrade disk or do I have to start with the original XP Home disk?
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Oct 3, 2009
"Floppy Disk not Recognized in Clean Install"
I am attempting a clean installation of Windows XP on a new disk. I have 3rd party drivers to install but the system at this step fails to recognize the floppy drive. At least it fails to respond to the F6 > S > 'Insert ... floppy disk ...' sequence. The drive is required for the floppy disks on which the drivers are located.
Is there a way around this, putting them on a CD or USB since some computers are coming now without floppy disks.
BTW the floppy drives works with an Alt. Boot using Win 2K Pro
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Oct 19, 2007
My XP Home recovery disk will not install or repair anymore (the last few days I did have it up and running - but after trying to install SP2 it's crashing again). So my final chance to get this system back up and running is to try and install a "retail version" XP Pro to a new hard drive.
Can you perform a 'full installation' from a product that is listed as "upgrade" I found what I feel is a good deal on eBay - the blurb states that you can (boot from CD drive) and then when promted just insert your original XP Home or WIN98 disk which sorts out the "key problem". I have listed what this Power Seller says - I have also emailed previous buyers who say it's a great product - legal etc. But these buyers had installed over a working copy of Windows 2000 and XP Home....
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Sep 13, 2010
I have an HP computer that got a bug on it. I had to recover with my recovery disc. Before the bug I had Windows Installer Clean Up utility on my computer that I used, like when Adobe Reader screwed up and I couldn't download it again because of remnants of Adobe still on the computer that I couldn't get rid of. Now I have that problem with Java. After the recovery Java wouldn't work. So I deleted it in the Add/Delete. But there are remnants that won't delete. Now I can't find the Installer Cleanup utility. Can someone tell me where I could find "Windows Installer Clean Up" utility for Windows XP
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Sep 10, 2005
Did Not Find The Reply To My Message Asking Which Blocks To Check To Do A Disk Clean Up Although I Know There Was A Reply.
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Nov 7, 2005
I have finnaly decided to enter the world of high speed internet (wait for appluse) and before I do this I want to optomize my computers preformence so I have Checked the hard drive for errors and defragmented it when I try to use the Disk Clean Up tool that comes with XP it asks what drive i want to check then I click the main drive and I get this error:"Disk Cleanup Manager for Windows has encounterd a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience"I looked it up and did not find any thing that lead me to belive that it was a common error Is there anyway that I can reinstall it or another way to run it? Also if anyone has any advice on speeding up my computer let me know.
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Dec 10, 2004
I have XP Home, and every time I run Disk Clean-Up, the program kind of freezes. I make sure to have no major tasks running and sometimes I don't even touch the computer while it's running. But it freezes.After I cancel it, my computer goes soooo slow, so I in the running processes using Ctrl + Alt + Delete I notice that my computer is at 100% usage, and that the Disk Clean-up is still running even though the window has been closed and the task has been canceled.What can I do so it stops this? How can I successfully run Disk Clean-up?
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Feb 12, 2008
disk clean up wont work is there anything I can do my comp realy needs a disk clean up space is limited! thank you windows xp compaq 7500
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May 21, 2006
Have XP on Dell Inspiron 1150. When running disk clean up it start but does not finish - for a full 24 hours. hardware and Spy-Bot both work. Tried to uninstall other two programs but Windows 'Disk Clean Up' does not work or, at least never completes a scan.Dell assisted but said computer is fine - reinstall Win-XP.Is there another solution before I re-nstall Windows?
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Aug 22, 2008
I did a disk clean up, it wouldn't get rid of all temporary internet files. So I went into the registry. Instead of deleting the file i deleted the whole thing. Disk clean up is still there but it doesn't have any of the categories. I tried to do system restore. For some reason it owuldn't let me. I was going to do a windows fix-up but my cd said that I have a newer verson of what was on the cd. Im at a loss. I have searched google for some time now and can't come up with any solutions. I thought about just downloading another product that does the same thing, but I would really like to put the orginal stuff back on if I can.
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Jun 17, 2008
This one has really got me stumped, and even worse, I need this stuff installed ASAP,So yesterday I formatted/install windows xp pro sp2, I did my usual thing, windows updates, fire fox,Skype. I then tried to install MS Office 2007 Enterprise. I (still do) recieved the following error message, "Setup cannot find Office.en-usdwtrig20.exe. Browse to a valid installation source, and then click OK", allowing me to browse for dwtrig20.exe.dwtrig20.exe IS THERE, the installation works perfectly on another machine of mine!I then tried to install MS Visual Studio 2008 Pro, this time, i received an error while trying to install Visual Studio. It failed while installing "Visual Studio Web Authoring Component". I extracted this component and attempted to install it 'on its own' and it failed.
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Feb 2, 2009
As part of my monthly maintenance checks I ran Disk Clean up and it took so long to complete that it was almost like a drive-defrag. I had to cancel out of it at least once I try it in safe mode because I was sure it was hanging. Only it wasn't hanging, just running slow. The part that took forever was NOT the pre part where it estimates how much space you can free on the disk. That was done in a few minutes. It was when running Disk Clean up and it was doing the "Compress Old Files" part. It took at least 45 minutes. When I went into Safe Mode, as part of Disk Clean Up, I check something that I think was called "Temporary Index File Searching." that I did not see before in Normal Mode. Why would Disk Clean Up take 3-5 times longer to complete than usual?
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Sep 9, 2005
I have an ibm think pad with windows 2000 office professinal , it takes approx 12-15 minutes for start up and free space is 78 percent so I know the problem is not space. I am also unable to do a disk cleanup. I have defraged ok and once the computer has started I can surf easily what could be wrong I have a fair knowledge of computers but nothing about configuration Could someone please help?
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Jul 29, 2005
On my notebook under accessories(system tools), there is a disk clean up that I have wondered about using. Should i do this? My PC is 2 years old and I would like to know what this does and will it help speed up my computer.
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Jul 15, 2010
I've posted my HiJackthis log file. I need help to clean up my disk.
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.4
Scan saved at 15:48:35, on 15/07/2010
Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18702)
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Oct 12, 2005
My Disk Clean Up launches but then doesn't do anything. It just sits there - for hours. Anybody got a clue as to what I need to do to get it operational?
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Aug 1, 2005
When I use disk cleanup it won't compress old files I have it set to compress files I haven't accessed in 6 days
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Nov 27, 2005
I have partitioned my main hdd 200gb into 15gb for boot( C: drive) and 2 other data drives.I am getting messages from some apps that the C: drive is nearly full. Looking at it, I have only 28MB left. I have not installed anything on that drive but it is nearly full.Not sure where the rest of the space has gone because that is basically all that is on that drive. My computer has been booting and running slowly for a few months now or slower than in the past. I figure it is partly due to this disk issue. Is there a tool or way to clean up the disk and make the computer run faster like when I freshly built it? Do I need to reinstall windows and start all over?
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Dec 26, 2008
On my Sony laptop, I can use Foxfire as my browser and all is OK, but when I try to use IE or windows tools like Clean Disk or Defrag, these processes use 100% CPU and hang up. I use AVG for virus protection and ran it in Safe mode - didn't help. I also bought and installed Uniblue Registry Cleaner - that didn't help either. System Restore isn't a solution either.
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Jan 11, 2006
I like to do a clean install of XP on the family computer.Its an older p3 933mhz 512meg system and its been running slow even after i did all the usual virus, spyware, reg, defrag scans.A lot of people have said I should do a fresh install of XP and it will help alot.The question is, how do I go about doing this?Do I need to format my Hard Disk first?How do I do that?I have a XP pro disk so I really just need to know how to wipe the Hard Disk clean before I install it.
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May 10, 2005
My friend has a gateway computer, little more than a year old with Win XP on it and complains that the entire computer is moving too slow. I suggested to do a disk-clean up, defrag, etc. first and she tried, but she said that the disk-clean up will just hang and if she tries anything else even to cancel it, the system will freeze up.Any ideas? Is it spyware? Or should she just do a whole reformat?
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Jan 19, 2006
I just completely wiped my HD clean with DBAN. Went to do a clean install, XP HOME, and everything went fine until I checked windows explorer and found out that I have 3 1/2 floppy, removable disk c:, removable disk D:,removable disk E:, DVD-R DRIVE F:, AND local disk G:. I should only have one local disk................... C: Why do I have all these removable disks C:,D:,E:???????And how can I fix this?
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Jul 16, 2005
I bought 2 SATA HDDs and would like to set them up as RAID and clean install XP and all the drivers/programs on them. I don't want to use those image drive programs to transfer the old drive to the new drive. My old HDD has XP on it (activated) and I would like to format it and use it for data storage later. Do I need to reactivate after I clean install XP on the new HDDs (same mobo and CPU)? I have NOT plugged the HDDs in my computer yet.
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Sep 6, 2007
I am going to try to do a clean install of XP. When i am ready to get my updates do i download all of them at once then reboot or do i have to get one at a time and reboot after each one?
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Jun 23, 2005
what drivers will I need? ..I have most of the stuff but some of the disks were for my winme OS I think. How do I find out what motherboard I have and what driver I need?if it all goes pear shaped will I be able to put my old master in and get back to square one?if it the Xp install goes fine can I put in my old master as slave and copy the needed files over to the new master? The old master is fat32, so would that be a problem?I only have the winme version of word but my dads laptop has word perfect for xp...could I use this?
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Oct 21, 2007
What would be the easiest way to do a clean re-install of Windows XP without the manufacturer's CD?
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Feb 23, 2010
I am unable to reinstall my HP printer driver and accompanying software and after spending more than enough time trying to remedy the problem, I've decided to reload Windows XP either by a clean install or a reinstall per this thread. I hope to get some advice here.The details that led to the problem of being unable to install my printer drivers and my attempts to remedy the problem are very long and drawn out and may not be relevant to this post or my desired solution, so I will not go through them unless requested. Suffice it to say that I have spent a good 30 hours attempting to remedy the problem, with a good portion of that time spent with free HP Support. None of their "fixes" or any of my own attempts after lots of research have been successful.
I have installed XP several times on several different machines and thus, I'm very confident with a routine install. However, due to a special configuration on this computer, I need some advice.First: Will a reinstall per this thread potentially fix my printer problem? I know there may not be a definitive answer here, but I would just like to get some feedback.If more detail is needed on the problem, I will be happy to provide it.Second: Due to space restraints on my boot drive (18 GB SCSI drive), I moved the Documents and Settings folder to a large IDE storage drive (E:) on this machine. Will I be able to refer to the Documents and Settings folder during a clean install, so that all of the current settings will load? If not, is there a solution for getting the current settings loaded into the clean XP install?
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Jan 28, 2006
In reinstalling Windows XP, I did a full format to erase the old programs. While reinstalling the various programs, Sun Java, it posted a screen stating that a version of this program was present in Document and settings. I thought that the full format would clear this out.but evidently it didn't.
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