How to format a hard drive from bios

Kemmy03

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:) i have a labtop with windows xp .i am trying to load my internet connection with a cd and i have a problem wit this as an error message come up -Runtime Error
 

almartin

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If you want to format your hard drive boot to the command prompt before windows loads and type format xx or what ever your drive letter is. Also see if your Cd/DVD drive is set to boot first in the bios.