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How to perform a clean install on the old laptop

Thanks, so far what your saying makes sense!
so, would u reccomend restarting the laptop with my NT cd? Would i get updates even though its so old?
when i turn it on i choose to run xp, i must hav messed up at some point because there is a option for xp set up. would formatting fix this and how exactly to do u format?

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Rather then loading NT, I would just load XP.
Xp actually is, NT 5.+

It will run on that laptop with out any problems.
I would suggest, however, that you have at least 512MB of RAM (more is better)
When you boot to the XP disk, you will have options on what to do.
One of the options is to delete the existing partition. If you have removed any data you want to save, delete the partition, and then continue with creating a partition, formatting, and loading (they pretty much walk you through the steps on the install).

Note to the above....when you delete the existing partition, any data that is on the computer is gone. So make sure that you have looked it over before doing that.

You will also need to make note of onboard devices beforehand so that you do know your onboard devices (sound, video, NIC etc) and you can make sure to have those drivers inhand before you start. XP has a number of them built in, but some, you will have to go to the HP/Compaq site to download.

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