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How To Install Windows XP

Friday July 3, 2009
There are three major ways to install Windows XP on a computer and it's very, very important that you choose the right one.

A clean install will wipe EVERYTHING from the hard drive partition that XP is installed on. A repair install is like a "copy over" and shouldn't delete anything important. Finally, a new install is what you'd do if you just purchased a new hard drive to install Windows onto or you're building your own PC.

(OK, there's actually at least one other way - a parallel install - but it's not usually very useful.)

You can learn more here: How To Install Windows XP.
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