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Dimension 9100 fresh install weirdness...

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hypeMarked

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I was doing a fresh winxp pro install to my newly received 9100 (yes, I downloaded the SATA driver, so the hdd is fine). The problem I have is, I deleted all partitions, then formatted the hdd with NTFS selection. After winxp finished copying/installing, the system reboot and to my surprise, I got to the prompt of OS selection screen (one is the old Dell OS, the other is my freshly installed xp). What's going on here? I thought the boot sector should be deleted too. I reformatted a lot of computers, but this is the first occurrence of this situation. Anything wrong with my installation? Should I reformat this again? I want to have a clean computer. Thanks
 
Dell probably has a partition on the hard drive. You probably need to go back and reinstall your O/S, this time choosing FAT32 instead of NTFS, then when it is finished with the O/S install, use a WIN98SE boot diskette to FDISK the drive and get rid of all partitions, including probably the one that DELL has on it. Then repartition it with just the partitioning that you want and then use the WIN98SE boot diskette to FORMAT your drive.

 
Originally posted by: hypeMarked
I was doing a fresh winxp pro install to my newly received 9100 (yes, I downloaded the SATA driver, so the hdd is fine). The problem I have is, I deleted all partitions, then formatted the hdd with NTFS selection. After winxp finished copying/installing, the system reboot and to my surprise, I got to the prompt of OS selection screen (one is the old Dell OS, the other is my freshly installed xp). What's going on here? I thought the boot sector should be deleted too. I reformatted a lot of computers, but this is the first occurrence of this situation. Anything wrong with my installation? Should I reformat this again? I want to have a clean computer. Thanks
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If you still have a choice of OSs, then your boot.ini stuck around, so you didn't reformat the drive at all (from the sound of it). I suggest going thru the install again, removing all partitions, and then allowing XP to make one large partition, and tell XP to format it. (NTFS).
 
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