I need to reformat my drive. how do I do that???
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Oke you need your Windows XP CD(Assuming you have XP). Insert you CD in ur CD drive. Press Reset or turn "Off" and then turn "On". After the motherboard screen it should show "Press any key to boot from CD", go ahead an do that, press any key- Enter. i will load somefile to boot up. then it should show the Agrememnt. Press F8. then Choose the drive you wanna install XP. Hit Enter. Then Choose Format NTFS (do not choose Quick Format). It will format and then automatically start copying files. It will also automatically reboot after copyin. After that it will show a Win XP loading screen, Na, not yet done, i will now start installing. Around 33-32 min(left) it should show a screen asking for your regional settings and Key. Do it all. If you have LAN , at ~29 min it will show LAN setting, no big deal.. hit enter -enter. and then you're done. Wait for 30 min and you're done.\nHope it helped
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Easy use Killdisk wipe just the C partition.  Then let Windows setup format it in NTFS and prceed with Install.see sources
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When you start the installation for XP, it'll ask you to format or remove the current partition.  You can remove all partitions and reformat this way.
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Are you sure you want to erace your entire hard drive?\nSUGGESTION I\n1. Go to My Computer.\n2. Right-Click on the drive that you want to delete.\n3. Click Format.\n4. Check Quick Format.\n5. Click Start.\nI dont think this will work so do this\nSUGGESTION II\n1. Buy a Hard Drive \n2. Replace them
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right click on the drive and select format
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Or\n\nRight click on the drive icon and select format.\n\nOf course you wouldn't want to do this on your C drive
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backup what you want to keep and then use this to wipe the disk clean: \nhttp://www.killdisk.com/
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Get all your files off of it that you want to keep, then reformat/reinstall the operating system
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Dear Friend,\nYou first need to formate the entire disk.\nThen Boot your Computer using windows CD.\nThen there is a Software Segate Disk Manager. Run it. Follow the instructions. \nThere Comes a software with the Windows OS CD F-Disk.\nIt will also do but will take time.
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Do you mean partition?\nRead up on the program fdisk.exe\nYou gotta be careful with this, but it does work.
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Reformat and reload you hard drive.\n\nCoach
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just move the file into the new HD... then open it... make sure it works... then delete the file from your master HD...
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You can do it two different ways, just reload the operating system (and all programs) or format the drive and start all over again.  If you choose the first option, you dont have to save the data, if you go with the second you have to.  Its always good to have a backup anyway, right?
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You didnt say whether it was a new of just reformatted HDD, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and start from scratch in the long run it takes less time doing it the right way. FIRST partition the HDD THEN format the HDD go to run type cmd that brings you to the command line then type format space drive letter colon (format c:) that is from the old days now if you need to format a floppy substitute a  for c Once the HDD is formatted correctly, e is usually a CD or DVD drive unless you have multiple HDDs the easiest way is to go to "my computer" and see what is there. if something is missing many times a cable has been disconnected so open the case and check to see all the connections are in place and tight
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Stick the Microsoft operating system disk in the computer and reinstall telling it to reformat the hard drive. Before you do that, be sure to backup what ever you want to save. Works like a charm.
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If u want to create or edit partitions use norton partition magic by symantec.  no need to format ur drive no need to delete for resizing just let ur drive be empty and use resize option\n\nPS: boot from the bootable parition magic cd . thats the best option
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You don't need to reformat your hard drive to replace Windows.\n\nIf all you want to do is to replace Windows, just do a "clean" install.\n\nHowever, if you want to reformat your hard drive and erase everything on it, you can go to the Microsoft web site and read in the Knowledge Base  how to do that.  Be sure that is what you want to do because you can loose everything.  If you are not sure of what you are doing, it is worthwhile to pay someone to reformat your hard drive.