Formatting the Hard Drive

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Can someone please give me specific step-by-step
instructions on how to clean out my Hard Drive ("format"
it)? I'm really bad at this stuff so please help me.

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Can someone please give me specific step-by-step
instructions on how to clean out my Hard Drive ("format"
it)? I'm really bad at this stuff so please help me.
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1. Go into your BIOS and set the boot order to CD-ROM drive
first.

2. Boot from the XP CD

3. Follow the prompts

Why do you want to "clean out [your] Hard Drive"? It should be
the very last resort when you have a problem, to be done only
after all other attempts at troubleshooting have failed.
 
SAM said:
Can someone please give me specific step-by-step
instructions on how to clean out my Hard Drive ("format"
it)? I'm really bad at this stuff so please help me.
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You do it as part of a reinstall of the system after booting the XP CD
direct. Go into BIOS setup by hitting the right hotkey at boot (often
DEL) and set the Boot Order, on a Boot or BIOS Settings page, to CDRom
before Hard disk. Enter Setup, and after the license agreement take New
Install. When it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete
the current partition and make a new RAW one to be formatted at the next
stage

When it reboots, change the setting back before carrying on
 
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