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Yes, you can format the hard drive and this will remove erase the entire hard drive so that you can start from scratch on a new install .

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 238886

HOW TO: Set Up and Troubleshoot Multiple Monitors in Windows 2000

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I don't have an answer to your specific question as I never did that upgrade. What I can tell you is that if you can save whatever files you need to another computer or to some back up media then do...

Just format your hard drive and everything on it will be erased.

Usually you would dual boot from the same drive... a partition for each and partitions for data... just make sure that they are both set to use the same file system, I know XP can use NTFS... I don't...

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A rule of thumb for troubleshooting, when potentially replacing parts is to replace the cheapest one first.

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Start by pinging the desktop, go to command promt and type ping (space) then type the ip address of the desktop... if the reply comes back, packets sent =4 packets received =4 packets lost = 0...