Help! How do i delete everything from my computer?

[Warslut]

Oh well I've done it a lot too but more with Windows 2k and 98, maybe XP is different. I'll let you finish this up Cheshire.

[TroGdoR]

Trying to delete all the pornography files???

[[The Reaper]]

K I deleted it, turns out i didn't need the bootdisk, just the cd

[Warslut]

Should have figured XP wouldn't need it... o well reformatted fine?

[[The Reaper]]

All i know is that it worked lol, i cleared the partition then made anew one

[ducky01]

reboot it...

[Karant]

Just a question, can fdisk totally erase hard-drives?

[CheshireCat]

It destroys the partition, effectively erasing it, you can always recover info from a hard drive if you know what you're doing though.

[Obfuscate]

put the window cd in the cd tray and close.

restart computer.

enter BIOS. its either F2 button or esc key or delete key after it posts. it could be any of those depending on the bios used on the comp

go to the section where it allows you to select where it loads from.

change it so it loads from cd.

from there it should give you options to choose and simply choose to reformat.

once done reformatting it should ask how many partitions you want the drive in. (really only do this if you plan to have both windows and another OS on the comp and want to dual boot. for the most part partitions arent needed just make folders instead)

after that it should being the windows (98,2k,XP) install sequence.


have fun and dont make magic smoke.