gary wrote:

> I have just bought a second hand computer which had an illegal copy of
> windows xp home on it along with a illegal copy of windows xp pro.I have
> bought myself and new windows xp disk but my question is how do i remove
> then from my hard drives (yes theres one of each of the hard drives) I have
> made a dos disk and started up in dos mode but i cant seem to change the
> drive from A drive to C or D drive which are the two hard drives.It keeps
> coming up a invalid drive.what am i doing wrong?

Dos mode can't see NTFS partitions. You don't need that. The
installation CD has all the tools needed to delete the old partitions
and install XP. See this link:

http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User