Reformatting my hard drive

[rbanks53350]

on ld versions of xp i could reformat my hard drive to get rid of all the krap but i have xp pro with sp3 now and reinstalled it and cannot reformat my disci am full of krap and live in t5he wilds f france where we have dreadful supply problems and my system crashes regularly
making me rebuild on old xp i could reformat my drive but not on xp pro with sp3
please please help me
roger retired in france
ps i am english

 

[Emerald]

can you see the disk during the installation of XP? At the point where it asks you where to install XP.

if you can see the c: listed, easiest way would be to delete the current partition and recreate it then format it NTFS