Wierd issue reformating hard drive .

gac77

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I have reinstalled OS many times with little to no issues until now .This is what I have going on . I have a dell xps 7100 with all the original software on disks . When trying to reformat it seems that 2 OS are trying to install at the same time .

Things I have tried .
I have set first boot to the CD drive.
Set the CD option from boot from disk.

The HD itself has 3 partions on it . I'm wondering if one had a restore function that is trying to install also . I can't get back into windows as I have corrupted the OS by trying to reformat the hard drive .