Hi,
Someone gave me an old laptop, an HP Omnibook 6100 which has Windows 2000 on it, but I wanted to upgrade it to XP Professional. I have the Installation cd for XP but I was wondering how I can reformat it. I have no idea how to do it so I was wondering if someone could guide and help me.
Thanks!
Someone gave me an old laptop, an HP Omnibook 6100 which has Windows 2000 on it, but I wanted to upgrade it to XP Professional. I have the Installation cd for XP but I was wondering how I can reformat it. I have no idea how to do it so I was wondering if someone could guide and help me.
Thanks!
around a bit you can find plenty of instructions on doing a FRESH install. The first thing you want to do is to go to the mfg site and download all the drivers, burn to cd/dvd, or put on an external hard drive. Then it's just a simple matter of rebooting with the XP install disc in. Upon reboot the install screen shoulb come up. On some computer you may have to hit a "key", it saying to boot from this devie press any key,... something like that. If it does not automaticlly boot to the install CD, and you do not get some message saying to hit a key (enter key, spacebar, any key) Go into the BIOS (F100, or F12 maybe) and make sure you have the dvd/cd drive as the FIRST boot device selected)... Other wise it will boot from the hard drive, never accessing (seeing) the disc in the cd/dvd drive. (On my HP I found that I'd have to press F10 sometimes and manually select it. it for some reason on some discs not wanting to read them right.) On a standard /factory XP disc it should read it just fine... Just stick it in, follow the on screen prompts. You may befoe you do the format want to go into your disc manager, maybe labling the partition with the OS on it, it you have more than one partition on the disc... Once you get to the format screen I always select the full format,,, not the quick one as it more throughly checks the disc before installing the OS. BTW: If it was me depending on how "old" the computer is, How much ram, cpu power you have.... I'd consider leaving 2000 on it. It will in most cases run faster.. and from what I've gathered from people in the know, 2000 is really better... XP can be tweaked... and you can make custom install discs to keep it from installing a bunch of stuff you don't need/want which will speed it up... make it more responsive on a older computer. XP really likes at least a gig of ram.... 512mb at the min. Anything below 512mb on an older computer and XP will crawl.
