i want to format my hard disk please help?
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make a boot disk, and you will need the install CD... the go to the command prompt and type format c:
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Here is an easy way to format a floppy disk on a windows xp, or 98 computer.  \n\n1.) Put the disk in the drive\n2.) Double click on my computer on yoru desktop.\n3.) Right hand click on 3 1/2 floppy disk drive\n4.) Select Format.\n\ngood luck!
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You can use the Microsoft Windows XP Setup program or the Fdisk and Format tools to partition and format System and startup partitions.\nBefore you install your operating system, you must first create a primary partition on the hard disk (disk 1) on your computer, and then format a file system on that partition. The Fdisk tool is an MS-DOS-based tool that you can use to prepare (partition) a hard disk. You can use the Fdisk tool to create, change, delete, or display current partitions on the hard disk, and then each allocated space on the hard disk (primary partition, extended partition, or logical drive) is assigned a drive letter. Disk 1 may contain one extended partition, and a second hard disk may contain a primary or extended partition. An extended partition may contain one or more logical MS-DOS drives. \n\nAfter you use the Fdisk tool to partition your hard disk, use the Format tool to format those partitions with a file system. The file system File Allocation Table (FAT) allows the hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data. Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2), Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition (Me), and Windows 2000 support the FAT16 and FAT32 file systems. When you run the Fdisk tool on a hard disk that is larger than 512 megabytes (MB), you are prompted to choose one of the following file systems: • FAT16: This file system has a maximum of 2 gigabytes (GB) for each allocated space or drive letter. For example, if you use the FAT16 file system and have a 6-GB hard disk, you can have three drive letters (C, D, and E), each with 2 GB of allocated space.\nFAT32: This file system supports drives that are up to 2 terabytes in size and stores files on smaller sections of the hard disk than the FAT16 file system does. This results in more free space on the hard disk. The FAT32 file system does not support drives that are smaller than 512 MB\nWhen you run the fdisk and format commands, the Master Boot Record (MBR) and file allocation tables are created. The MBR and file allocation tables store the necessary disk geometry that allows hard disk to accept, store, and retrieve data\n\nAfter you create the partitions, you must format the partitions: 1. Restart your computer with the Startup disk in the floppy disk drive. \n\nNOTE: If you are using a Windows 95 Startup disk, a command prompt is displayed and you can skip to step 2. If you are using a Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Me Startup disk, select the Start computer without CD-ROM support menu option when the Windows 98 Startup menu is displayed. \n2. When a command prompt is displayed, type format c: /s, and then press ENTER. This command transfers the system files and should only be used when you format drive C (or your "active" drive). For all other partitions, type format drive: (where drive is the letter of the partition that you want to format). \n\nNOTE: If you receive a "Bad command" or "Bad file name" error message, you may need to extract the Format.com tool to your boot disk. To do this, type the following command at a command prompt, and then press ENTER: \nextract ebd.cab format.com\nAfter the Format.com tool is extracted to your boot disk, type format c: /s t a command prompt to format your active partition, or type format drive: if you want to format a partition that is not your active partition. \n3. When you successfully run the Format.com tool, you receive the following message:\nWARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST! \nProceed with Format?  \n4. Press Y, and then press ENTER to format drive C. \n5. After the format procedure is finished, you receive the following message: \nVolume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)? \nNOTE: This is an optional feature that you can use to type a name for the drive. You can either type an 11-character name for the drive, or you can leave it blank by pressing ENTER. \n\nIf you want to add a second hard disk (s
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Don't be so much worried get a good hard disk format it by using your OS if it is windows you will right click on your my computer and select manage option and hard disk tab and then you  will have a column there which will show the new hard disk activate it
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You will have to initialise the disk and then create a partition and format the disk if this has not been done already.\n\nYou will need to be logged in as the Administrator or a user with Administrator priviledges on the local computer.\n\nControl Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Computer Management >> Disk Management\n\nThe various disks in your computer will be shown on the right hand side.  Choose the 40GB external one by simply right clicking where it says Disk0 or Disk1.  The option "Initalise Disk" should be chosen.\n\nNow the disk ready to be formatted.  Just right click on the space next to the entry and choose "New Partition" and follow the instructions of the Wizard.  It is pretty straight forward.\n\nGood Luck
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Use Disk Utility in your Utilities folder to reformat it.\n\nOpen Disk Utility\nHighlight your volume in the sidebar\nclick the Erase tab\nchoose "MS-DOS" for format\nclick Erase\n\nDisk Utility will automatically choose FAT-32 or FAT-16, depending on your disk size.  Your 100 Gig disk will be formatted in FAT-32 format.
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I am assuming you mean a floppy disc?  insert it into your A drive, right click "my computer" and open it, go to the A drive, right click and choose "format"
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http://www.directron.com/formatdrive.html\nand read
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I am answering this question by assuming that you want to know how to format  a windows based Personal Computer.\nstep 1 -  Go to the  c drive (this contains windows).\nstep 2 -   now you are at c:&#92;>\nstep 3 -  write   c:&#92;>  format  c:\n\nThis will format the C drive.
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Put a disk in the drive, go to my computer, right click on the disk, select format.
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If you are using Windows. Go to commant prompt,\nwrite 'format /?' there. You will find how to format
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format the hard drive, clean install windows
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(m)\n\ngoto the following link to format a disk step by step \n\nhttp://www.uth.tmc.edu/scriptorium/howto/format/disk.html
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Format the partition back to FAT32 or NTFS. You can do this by using your windows installation CD or if you know to use the FDISK command (Windows or Linux)\n\nIf that doesn't work you can use a partitioning tool like Ranish partition manager(Free) - http://www.ranish.com/part/ or Partition Magic(Commercial) to format the Linux partition(s)
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you could just throw in a windows xp cd and delete the partitions\nthen format it back to ntfs
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format c:/\nYou can also format the drive by just putting the xp disk into the drive and restarting the computer, when it asks which drive to install it too look at your options.  Delete the partition and create a new one.  Through the process you will format your drive.
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Right Click on a my computer icon, select manage from the drop down list.  A Computer Management window will open.  Select Disk Management.  Finally select the drive you would like to format, right click and select format.