Wiping the hard disk clean

VistaKing said:

See if this will help you partition the hard drive . It has photos

Partitioning A Blank Hard Drive During XP Installation

The first paregraph in you link states "If there is an operating system installed, the existing partitions will be listed in the lower half of the screen. Selecting an existing partition and using the D key will delete it, along with any data and program files it contains"

If Ubuntu is simply installed without partitioning the disk for that purpose, will there be an option to delete that during installation?

Thank you,

If should delete the partition any data or OS

AddRAM said:

Melita said:

The Hard Disk of course needs to be partitioned when installing XP. I am not familiar with partitioning. Is there a simple method or program that I can do this with?

Thank you,

And you can also use the XP disc and a calculator to do your partitioning.

1 GB = 1024 MB

200 GB partition would equal 204,800 MB simple

But using the PW disc is sooooo much easier and the preferred method of millions of Happy Windows 7 users all over the World.

How much of space should I allocate for the partition of XP Professional? Is there a sort of 'usual practice' for this, such as allocating a percentage of MB or GB more than the actual size of the operating system installation?

Regards,

Are you just installing the OS and applications and are you moving the Documents and Settings folder to another partition ?

From your first post it sounded like XP was the only OS on this HDD?

VistaKing said:

Are you just installing the OS and applications and are you moving the Documents and Settings folder to another partition ?

I want to delete Ubuntu completely (without saving any thing), which is the only thing on this HDD and install XP Professional.

What is the advantage in installing the OS and applications in one partition and moving Documents and Settings to another partition. If it is the better thing to do I would like to do that.

Here is the how-to use DBAN

How to use DBAN to remove the contents from a hard disk - UCD IT Services

I know you tried using it before try again with the steps on the link

Thank you all for some great help. I used the XP Clean Install to wipe the disk clean during installation. I made the XP partition 40GB. Left the rest of the disk un-partitioned, to play with later, once I decide where to put what. It worked out fine.

Best regards,