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Question posted by currey on February 11th, 2014

How Do I Completely Wipe Everything On My Computer Except The Win Xp Os.

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Answer #1: Posted by krishmaqvan on February 12th, 2014 7:52 AM

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For that Windows xp always istalled on c driver so you can format other drivers like d and e and so on.

But first check where windows folder located if it's on c driver then just right click on d and other driver then click on format then you can wipe out all data from those drive.

then delete unncessary itmes from c drive except windows and documents and settings folder also delete items from desktop screeen.

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