Formatting my Hard Drive

[Mercury]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I'm going crazy trying to figure out how to format my
hard drive!!!!!!!! My Operating System is Microsoft
Windows XP Professional and unfortunately I cannot figure
out how to re-format my hard drive. I would sincerely
appreciate any assistance!

Thank you,

Mercury

[Danny Blue]

Boot from your CD.

"Mercury" > wrote in message
...
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I'm going crazy trying to figure out how to format my
> hard drive!!!!!!!! My Operating System is Microsoft
> Windows XP Professional and unfortunately I cannot figure
> out how to re-format my hard drive. I would sincerely
> appreciate any assistance!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mercury

[Danny Blue]

Boot from your CD.

"Mercury" > wrote in message
...
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I'm going crazy trying to figure out how to format my
> hard drive!!!!!!!! My Operating System is Microsoft
> Windows XP Professional and unfortunately I cannot figure
> out how to re-format my hard drive. I would sincerely
> appreciate any assistance!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mercury

[Kenny]

Set your BIOS to boot from CD first then boot with XP CD in drive and go
from there.

--

Kenny

"My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!"

"Mercury" > wrote in message
...
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I'm going crazy trying to figure out how to format my
> hard drive!!!!!!!! My Operating System is Microsoft
> Windows XP Professional and unfortunately I cannot figure
> out how to re-format my hard drive. I would sincerely
> appreciate any assistance!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mercury

[Kenny]

Set your BIOS to boot from CD first then boot with XP CD in drive and go
from there.

--

Kenny

"My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!"

"Mercury" > wrote in message
...
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I'm going crazy trying to figure out how to format my
> hard drive!!!!!!!! My Operating System is Microsoft
> Windows XP Professional and unfortunately I cannot figure
> out how to re-format my hard drive. I would sincerely
> appreciate any assistance!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mercury

[Nicholas]

The Windows XP CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessary
to partition and format your drive. Follow this procedure and allow
Windows XP to partition and format your drive:

1. Open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as the first bootable device.
2. Insert your Windows XP CD in the CD Drive and reboot your =
computer.
3. You'll see a message to boot to the CD....follow the instructions.
4. The setup menu will appear and you should elect to delete the =
existing
Windows partition, then create a new partition, then format the =
primary
partition (preferably NTFS) and proceed to install Windows XP.

5. Windows XP Clean Install:=20
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

6. Accessing Motherboard BIOS
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm


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Nicholas

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"Mercury" > wrote in message: =20
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| Dear Sir/Madam,
|=20
| I'm going crazy trying to figure out how to format my=20
| hard drive!!!!!!!! My Operating System is Microsoft=20
| Windows XP Professional and unfortunately I cannot figure=20
| out how to re-format my hard drive. I would sincerely=20
| appreciate any assistance!
|=20
| Thank you,
|=20
| Mercury

[Nicholas]

The Windows XP CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessary
to partition and format your drive. Follow this procedure and allow
Windows XP to partition and format your drive:

1. Open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as the first bootable device.
2. Insert your Windows XP CD in the CD Drive and reboot your =
computer.
3. You'll see a message to boot to the CD....follow the instructions.
4. The setup menu will appear and you should elect to delete the =
existing
Windows partition, then create a new partition, then format the =
primary
partition (preferably NTFS) and proceed to install Windows XP.

5. Windows XP Clean Install:=20
http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

6. Accessing Motherboard BIOS
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/bios_manufacturer.htm


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Nicholas

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"Mercury" > wrote in message: =20
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| Dear Sir/Madam,
|=20
| I'm going crazy trying to figure out how to format my=20
| hard drive!!!!!!!! My Operating System is Microsoft=20
| Windows XP Professional and unfortunately I cannot figure=20
| out how to re-format my hard drive. I would sincerely=20
| appreciate any assistance!
|=20
| Thank you,
|=20
| Mercury

[Michael Stevens]

"Mercury" > wrote in message
...
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I'm going crazy trying to figure out how to format my
> hard drive!!!!!!!! My Operating System is Microsoft
> Windows XP Professional and unfortunately I cannot figure
> out how to re-format my hard drive. I would sincerely
> appreciate any assistance!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mercury

With XP unless you are changing to a new OS, formatting is done by booting
from the CD and either Clean installing or loading the Recovery console to
use diskpart. Reinstalling, or Repair installing does not require a format.
If you want to reinstall XP clean, boot from the XP CD.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
If you want to format to install another OS.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#How1
Remove XP install 98/Me
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#how5
Repair install.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP

http://michaelstevenstech.com

[Michael Stevens]

"Mercury" > wrote in message
...
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I'm going crazy trying to figure out how to format my
> hard drive!!!!!!!! My Operating System is Microsoft
> Windows XP Professional and unfortunately I cannot figure
> out how to re-format my hard drive. I would sincerely
> appreciate any assistance!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mercury

With XP unless you are changing to a new OS, formatting is done by booting
from the CD and either Clean installing or loading the Recovery console to
use diskpart. Reinstalling, or Repair installing does not require a format.
If you want to reinstall XP clean, boot from the XP CD.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
If you want to format to install another OS.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#How1
Remove XP install 98/Me
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/xpfaq.html#how5
Repair install.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
--

Michael Stevens MS-MVP XP

http://michaelstevenstech.com