I Need Hard Drive Help

The original hard drive in my computer over heated and "burned up". I purchased another and installed it. I can not find an option in the bios to format / partition the new drive. I'm not very computer savvy, but I thought I could handle this . Now I'm not so sure. Help!

jmt604.. this is what you'll need to do.. first find the windows installation cd's that came with your computer.. If it is a windows XP machine you'll simply place the cd in the drive then restart the machine.. it will say "press any key to boot from cdrom" or something to that effect. You'll then go to a blue screen with white letters and go through the prompts.. You'll get to a screen that says shows partitions and you should have 1 giant one that you'll select and say "quick format NTSF". if its vista you'll do the same thing up till the screen that will be full color and just go through the prompts and select the partition and it will do the rest for you..

If it comes back saying that it means that it didn't see the cd that you placed to reinstall windows.. insure that it is in fact the correct cd and if it is.. see if you can specifically say that you want it to boot from THAT cd-rom.. What has happened if you want to know is that the bios has run through all the choices you gave it to boot from and since it ran out of choices it declares no bootable sectors found..