Rebuilding computer on XP

[CamaroRob97]

I put my windows cd in i thought it was gong to erase my C: toally, but now i have 2 operating systems on my computer.

I tried just going through dos but that wanst working either.

Anyone have any help?

Its a dell to, but that shouldnt matter. I should know how to do this lol, i know computers pretty well and I cant remember how to format my hardrive :( .

[ December 15, 2004, 12:50 AM: Message edited by: CamaroRob97 ]

[98Camaro3.8]

If you boot to the CD, you can tell it to format the partition. It should be fairly obvious when you go through the menus.

[CamaroRob97]

That was what i tried to do was delete the partition, but it wouldnt let me, it said that partion was needed to reinstall windows.

So you saying i should make my cd-rom load before my hardrive so i can boot from cd( in bio's of course).

[98Camaro3.8]

Right, set the bios to boot directly from the CD, that way you can format the partition.

[CamaroRob97]

Ok cool, that should do it, I should of knew that [img]smile.gif[/img]

[3.4 slow to go]

I did a new windows install on my new comp. once it was put together, jsut inserted the xp cd & let it go at it. I even partitoned the HDD separately, 30 gig w/xp, and went back & partitioned the rest afterwards.

[CamaroRob97]

I just remembred, when i tried a second time, it didnt even go into the whole partition screen it just went into installing windows again, that confused me. Im not sure what im forgeting, but tommrow im gong to rebuild it afther work.

[L32Projekt]

Make sure you delete all partitions, then create a new one. It should ask you what you want to format the new partition as, as well. Just read everything on the screen and all questions shall be answered, grasshopper!