Amen to that!  The last one of these I did took 4 1/2 hours.  If I had
the option of a wipe/restart I would have saved a ton of time.

Along these lines... I have another one on the horizon (I sent the
user off to back up their data files... only a matter of time until
they come back).

This is a Windows XP Home system.  Anyone know how to wipe such a
machine completely clean via a format and full reinstall?  The last
one of these I ran into, I could reinstall XP, but it was over top of
the existing files (may have been due to this being a mfr
'restore'-type disk).  What I really wanted was a good old-fashioned
reformat.  Or if I could fdisk the thing to fool the XP installer into
going fresh, that would be fine as well.

Assuming there is such a thing as fdisk these days ... :-(

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--Matt Robertson--
MSB Designs, Inc.

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