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reformatting & reinstalling the windows on my my mac

  • 08-10-2008 8:22am
    #1
    eurotrotter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭


    hey guy
    hope all is well
    i have a macbook running OS X and i also have bootcamp with WINDOWS XP available.
    Xp has started to get slow and i want to reinstall & reformat.

    How do i go about doing this.

    is it the very same as if i were to reformat windows on a purely windows machine, by just hitting f12 and booting from disc etc?

    thanks very much,
    ed


Comments

  • #2
    babypink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭babypink


    just go through the bootcamp process from scratch


  • #3
    J-blk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭J-blk


    eurotrotter wrote: »
    is it the very same as if i were to reformat windows on a purely windows machine, by just hitting f12 and booting from disc etc?

    Definitely avoid something like that, it'll screw everything up, very likely including the Mac OS X partition as well. As Babypink said, just use Bootcamp's installer to set up from scratch and it'll take you through the various steps involved.


  • #4
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,538 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    eurotrotter wrote: »
    Xp has started to get slow and i want to reinstall & reformat.

    It's funny (or maybe, sad) that Windows users just accept stuff like this as a fact of life :(

    Windows does get slower over time but mainly due to the registry getting bloated, unless you are installing and uninstalling hundreds of programs this shouldn't happen in only a few months. So you have got a malware infection (or probably a few at once.) After you reinstall, make sure you are protected with anti-virus (e.g. AVG) and anti-spyware (Spybot, Ad-Aware, preferably both) software for your Windows partition and keep them, and Windows, updated at least once a week.

    In Cavan there was a great fire / Judge McCarthy was sent to inquire / It would be a shame / If the nuns were to blame / So it had to be caused by a wire.



  • #5
    RichyX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭RichyX


    How well does bootcamp work?
    Apple claim it works at full speed, but I've heard otherwise.


  • #6
    J-blk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,906 ✭✭✭J-blk


    RichyX wrote: »
    How well does bootcamp work?
    Apple claim it works at full speed, but I've heard otherwise.

    I rarely use it but it seems to work at full speed and why wouldn't it? All Boot Camp does is provide a layer to install and then dual boot Windows - since XP in particular cannot be installed on an EFi-only system (no BIOS essentially). Once in Windows, you're running it as if installed on an equivalent spec PC - nothing is virtualized like VMs have to do.


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