Help! How do i delete everything from my computer?

[[The Reaper]]

I recently got a new computer, and my dad wants to use this one, where do i go to to delete everything. I don't mean manually, i mean delete everything so its like the computer was new.

[Warslut]

You mean reformat, do you have a boot disk floppy and windows CD?

[[The Reaper]]

I don't know what the boot disk floppy is but i have the windows cd

[Warslut]

Ok You have MSN? And what windows CD is it, and is it legit CD with legit cd key or cdkey you KNOW works?

[[The Reaper]]

I have the purple one that came with the computer.

The computer's dell

[Warslut]

Never mind can't upload its 500~ KB, you need to get MSN or something so I cna xfer it quickly.

[[The Reaper]]

Um, i'm nkorterrorist89 at aim

[Warslut]

Uhh don't have aim, hate it man >_<
http://messenger.msn.com/

Get that quickly if you can, I always have a hell of a time with AIM

[[The Reaper]]

Can you email it to me then? [email protected]

[Warslut]

Oh maybe hold on let me try

*EDIT*

Sent, extract all those files to a folder on the desktop and then move them onto a BLANK floppy. Should be 18 items in total

[[The Reaper]]

K thanks man for the help

[Warslut]

Read edit in above post.

Here's screeny to be sure

[[The Reaper]]

yeah its extracting into the floppy. Now, do i just take it out and put it back in?

do i extract the ebd.cab onto the floppy?

[CheshireCat]

If your computer came with a disc, it's probably the restore disc, try booting with it in the cdrom drive.

[[The Reaper]]

We're not doing anything illegal are we? cheshire is watching lol

Yeah i did, i told messiah what came up, its just the regulare op system cd

[CheshireCat]

No, its fine, it's just a bootdisk, lol. you can get a disk image from bootdisk.com if you want. Ill add you to my ICQ, ill walk you through it all.

[Warslut]

Nono, you have to reset your computer and make it boot from floppy drive. In dos mode type fdisk. It should load and if it does good, go and delete primary non-dos partition. Once done that Make a primary partition... takes a min or 2, then take out flopyy and reset computer and make it boot from CD[with windows CD in] and go through setup and shouldhave option of formating drive... if the comp doesnt boot from floppy drive then tell me.

[[The Reaper]]

I didn't try restarting my computer with the cd in though

Ok, i'm trying it right now

[Warslut]

Well if the boot disk doesnt work maybe Chesh can help you out better than I can

[CheshireCat]

I've done it millions of times
You shouldnt have to delete the partition if you're installing windows XP.
I wouldn't reccomend it anyways if you have a large Hard drive or it could take a very long time.
Anyways, I added you, so get on your AIM.