Formatting a hard drive

[mbdw6708]

I wish to re-format my hard drive because my computer is messing up.  I do not wish to save anything on the hard drive.  Please give me the details to format the hard drive and then re-install my OS.  Thanks.

 

[edfair]

before anyone can help you the forum will need more info about your system and the OS you are reinstalling. Answers are totally different with different operating systems and versions. <p>Ed Fair<br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>

 

[DaveGoTech]

1. Make a boot disk.<br>2. Boot from it and format the drive.<br>3. Install the O/S per Microsoft instructions provided with the sofware. <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href=

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[JamesMcG]

before you format make sure your boot disk will allow you to access the cdrom otherwise you wont be able to install your OS.<br><br>

 

[mbdw6708]

Thanks for the information, everything turned out good.

 

[Karl Blessing]

on some computers you can boot right off the CDrom, I know I've done it several times with the Win98 CD and Linux(Mandrake) CD, this kind of configuratino would be in the BIOS, oh also if you feel you need to wipe your boot sector(say you want to do a clean wipe off, and you dont want your old bootloader or anything) you can use the Low Level Format in the BIOS, which will wipe everything down, even the master boot record(Very helpful as last resort to removing a bad virus) <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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