Aqua-Soft ForumsHi guys. I just got a laptop and I would like to do a fresh,clean install of windows xp home.
I dont know how to do this and i would like if some one could tell me how to make my laptop boot from a cd rom.
Clean Install
Go into your BIOS (usually by hitting DEL while it's finding your hard drives or checking memory or something). Then go to the boot page, and select first boot device and hit the page up key until it displays ATAPI cd-rom or something. Now reboot with the XP home cd in the drive....
Normally all new laptops and computers in general bood from the cd... however, if the copy of windows you have is illegal, you wont be able to boot from it... if that is not thre problem, you have to go to www.microsoft.com and go to the download centre and get the winxp home boot diskette set... that will allow you to boot into the cd but from the floppy as boot starter...
Hope this helps...
Seph
Originally posted by Seph@Nov 12 2003, 03:13 AMNormally all new laptops and computers in general bood from the cd...
Haha, they "bood" from the CD. Your typos are the greatest Seph.
May your venture of clean installation on a laptop be smooth. No telling what creatures are in the deep shadows of Moria.
Yes! I'd love to!
Originally posted by tarik@Nov 12 2003, 09:39 AMHi guys. I just got a laptop and I would like to do a fresh,clean install of windows xp home.
I dont know how to do this and i would like if some one could tell me how to make my laptop boot from a cd rom.
Don't do it.
Seriously, if you are not familair with these basics, don't do it.
There will be much more questions afterwards which you right now dont foresee and which might be too late to be answered.
Have fun,
McTrinsic
Originally posted by McTrinsic@Nov 13 2003, 11:08 AMSeriously, if you are not familair with these basics, don't do it.
There will be much more questions afterwards which you right now dont foresee and which might be too late to be answered.
BLAH!
Unless his laptop is BRAND new. He's not gonna have a problem. If it's a good year old, XP is gonna find all the drivers he needs. What questions does XP ask after install? What do you want your computer name to be? Who Cares. What is the workgroup? Again, who cares. Create a user account. Impossible to mess up, if you don't put in any, you just login as administrator. As long as there are no driver issues, there's virtually nothing even my grandma could screw up.
Originally posted by wizard@Nov 12 2003, 11:27 AMYes! I'd love to!
What a proposal! Can I be the best man? 
Ill think about it 
Nobody wants to be the Groom's Maid :cry:
If he's installing XP, he might be able to pull it off without a hitch. Make sure you go to the manufactures web site and download every piece of software that you see for that laptop just in case.
fair wizard fear not! i shall be honoured to be Groom's Maid
If your laptop is brand new, dont do it. Manufacturers always package in a bunch of crap into xp. You wont change much with a fresh install.
If it needs to be reinstalled, then you shouldnt have a problem with booting from cd anyways. Like it was said, most computers boot from cd automatically. Id recommend xp pro instead of home though.