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Originally Posted by carol m
Actually... maybe you know if I have to delete everything on it before I re-format? It's important to get rid of everything on it and have a really clean re-install of XP Prof and Word.
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Reformatting essentially does the same thing as deleting. Neither one actually removes the information off the hard drive, they just remove the links to the data so the OS can't find the files anymore (but they're still there). So you should be fine with only reformatting the drive, that will give you a clean install of XP since the OS won't know the files are there. As a side note, this is why if you sell a computer that you have done any banking or have other sensitive info on (social security numbers, credit card info, etc) then you want to remove your hard drive before selling the computer.
Since the PC is out, can you give it another try on the mac and see if it works?
-tkr