Delete XP Boot Partition for Clean Install

Robert J. Rando wrote:

I need to do a clean install of XP due to a virus. I want to preferably
delete the partition that XP is currently installed, or at the very least
re-format it. The HD currently has 3 partitions and the other 2 are almost
full. I've booted to my Maxtor MaxBlast CD and tried doing it that way but
it's not working.

You need the MazBlast FLOPPIES. Download them from Maxtor's site with
another computer, make the floppies, boot the computer that you want to
format with the floppy, let it install, follow directions. If you do a
full format (zeros to disk), it will take hours and hours but everything
will be gone. You can use these tools to partition as well, after the
format. Once it's done, reboot to BIOS, set CDROM as first boot, stick
the XP CD in, save and exit and begin the XP install. Once that's done,
set the boot order back in the BIOS.

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Alias <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote

Robert J. Rando wrote

I need to do a clean install of XP due to a virus. I want to
preferably delete the partition that XP is currently installed, or at the
very least re-format it. The HD currently has 3 partitions and the other 2
are almost full. I've booted to my Maxtor MaxBlast CD and tried doing it that
way but it's not working.

You need the MazBlast FLOPPIES.

No you dont, the CD version is the same thing.

Download them from Maxtor's site with another computer, make the floppies,
boot the computer that you want to format with the floppy, let it install,
follow directions. If you
do a full format (zeros to disk), it will take hours and hours but
everything will be gone. You can use these tools to partition as
well, after the format. Once it's done, reboot to BIOS, set CDROM as first
boot, stick the XP CD in, save and exit and begin the XP
install. Once that's done, set the boot order back in the BIOS.