How to format HD in Win XP?

[Gabor]

Hello everybody!

I would like to completely format a hard disk with Windows XP currently installed on it. When i say to format completely, i mean no files should stay at all on the hard disk, even system files. I want this disk to be as clean as when you buy a new one, completly blank...

So, how do you do that?

Thanks for any help,

gab

 

[TurboT]

Hey Gab,
Insert your windows CD and change your bios to startup from CD , somewhere in the beginning you have the option to format. In there you start with removing your partition, after that you create again a partition and you set it active and then you format it and then you install your windows on it

 

[Gabor]

Thanks TurboT,

It seems pretty straight forward...