idots guide to formatting?

[nosher]

can any one help me i want to format my hard drive.can anyone give me an idiots guide please. im using win xp pro corp edition,i only have one hard drive,one burner and one cdrom. all i want to do is start a fresh the easiest way poss....

 

[bertieg]

If you have the Xp pro cd you can do it with that

 

[nosher]

bertieg thanks man ,but i did say idiots guide? how do i do that

 

[Midnightangel]

I dont have pro i have home, but i found the easiest way for me is to reboot into DOS (useing DOS off a floppy) then when it askes how u want to start hit "2 (start with CD rom support)" then let it load the drivers and stuff in for the drives, when it gets to the "A" prompt ( A_ ) type in "FORMAT C:" it will ask if your sure and all data will be erased from that drive hit "Y" to continue.
The drive will be formatted clean,next i reset my system so it reboots, i put the OS disc in the drive then when you get to the A prompt again ( A_ ) type in depending on which drive you put the disc in "E: or D:SETUP.EXE" then it will run through the setup program for the OS.
I have to instal ME first then upgrade to XP, im not sure on how pro does it, i hope this helps bro.
peace

 

[nosher]

midnightangel thanx for your time and effort me old fruit but that went straight over ones head. i thik il stick wiv me spectrum 48k.
and play steve davies snooker.........thanx again

 

[Midnightangel]

nosher, send me your e-mail addy and i will write it out in a lil more depth if you want, i will do it step by step so you can print it out and follow it one step at a time.