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Reinstall XP Understanding Your Formatting Options

Pt. 4 of 10 | 2:40 |

Reinstalling Windows XP


Thursday June 4, 2009
In part 3 of our video guide to reinstalling Windows XP we got as far as selecting a partition to install to. Now it's time to pick a formatting option. Your options are to do nothing, to do "quick" formats, or to do full formats, but using FAT32 or NTFS? Here's where I'll give you some tips.

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Show Notes

- FAT stands for File Allocation Table and it's a straightforward
system.

- NTFS has some distinct advantages of FAT.

- NTFS is more stable and it's also faster and more secure.

- My recommendation is to select the NTFS option and to do a full
reformat
of your hard drive.

- You can read about FAT and NTFS on href="http://www.wikipedia.com">Wikipedia

- Press F to Format the drive and Windows will begin installing immediately after the format completes.

- Windows XP is now reinstalling and will go on until it's time for us
to finalize it.

- But what if you put in your CD and restart and you never get the
prompt to start from the CD?

- That can happen and in the next segment I'll show you how to fix it.
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