Part 1. Back up your files. Since you'll be reinstalling the operating system, there's a good chance that you'll lose your saved files in the process. Creating a backup file will ensure that you can restore the files at any time. After backing up your files, you'll need to move the backup file to an external location e. Find your product key. The product key is a character code. It's usually located on a sticker that's on the bottom of the computer laptops , the back of the CPU tower desktops , or inside of the Windows XP box.
If you can't find your product key sticker, you can try using ProduKey to retrieve your computer's product key. Click Start. It's a green button in the bottom-left corner of the screen. Click My Computer. This monitor-shaped option is in the upper-right side of the Start window. Doing so will open the My Computer folder. Enable viewing for hidden files and folders. To do so: [1] X Research source Click the Tools tab in the top-left side of the window.
Click Folder Options Click the View tab. Check the "Show hidden files and folders" circle. Click Apply , then click OK. Double-click Local Disk. If there are multiple Local Disk options, make sure that you double-click the C: drive. Double-click the Windows folder. This will open the Windows folder. Double-click the i folder. You may have to scroll down to find this option. Find the "winnt Doing so will launch the Windows XP setup process.
Wait for the setup window to appear. Depending on how fast your computer is and which programs were open when you double-clicked winnt Once the setup window appears, you may proceed with reinstalling Windows XP.
Part 2. This will initiate the setup. Press the "I agree" key. At the bottom of the screen, you'll see a key e. Press the "Don't Repair" key. You'll see this listed at the bottom of the screen. The "Don't Repair" key is usually Esc. Delete your current XP installation. Select the NTFS hard drive option using the arrow keys, then press the "Delete" key usually D that's listed at the bottom of the screen. This will indicate to Windows that you want to delete the selected installation.
Press L when prompted. Doing so erases the hard drive and returns you to the installation menu. This will select your computer's hard drive as the installation point. Format your computer's hard drive. Doing so will set up the hard drive for a Windows installation. This process will take several minutes to an hour depending on your hard drive's size.
You can select the Quick option here as well, though your hard drive might be improperly formatted if you do so. However, questions such as this can not be answered by looking at MAC Times! SYS was deleted from the diskette.
EXE are finally deleted from the diskette. SYS was edited or replaced by an edited version having exactly the same file size on this date see the red digits in the "Last Write Date" column of the first line at PM.
SYS at COM file digitally exactly the same, but not in the same physical location as the one on an Me diskette was added at along with these other files. Since the clusters which make up the existing IO. SYS file clusters 2 through were not overwritten by any of the files listed above, it must have been deleted notice the "? SYS " at the beginning of the very first line of Table 2 ; see the date in red in the "Last Access Date" column of the first line at some time after on this date otherwise the files EGA2.
CPI would have overwritten all of these clusters. Whatever changes were made to the IO. SYS file were finally written to the diskette! In Figure 4 below, which is a textual representation of all the bytes in the diskette's DIRECTORY, you can see that the very first entry in the Directory offset Hex is a deleted file deleted file names begin with an symbol in this figure which is highlighted with a yellow background.
This is where the Directory entry for the original IO. SYS file and at least one edited version is located. Although this file occupies exactly the same clusters on the diskette as the original IO. This is not uncommon under the FAT file system.
Figure 4. I can't help but wonder why no one after , who read this paper and took a look at their copy of the Startup Disk, never bothered to write me about any differences they found. Chrisc Byron Artyom Michi Sattar Customer feedback H.
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