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claycad · 07-07-2008, 12:42 PM

What OS are you trying to reinstall XP, Vista, what?

If its either of those you should be able to put the OS reinstallation disk into your CD drive, boot the computer from the CD (if it doesn't do this automatically you have to enter your BIOS at boot and set it to boot from CD ROM)

After accepting the EULA you will come to a screen that lets you delete or create partitions. Just delete them all if that is what you want and recreate one and it should automatically format in NTFS. You can choose to do a quick format or regular. Quick format just formats it while regular format checks the disk surface for errors while formatting which takes way longer than a quick format.

07-07-2008, 12:42 PM	#2 (permalink)
claycad Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: WV Posts: 62 OS: Vista Home Premium	Re: Two Questions Regarding OS Reinstall and Formatting a Drive What OS are you trying to reinstall XP, Vista, what? If its either of those you should be able to put the OS reinstallation disk into your CD drive, boot the computer from the CD (if it doesn't do this automatically you have to enter your BIOS at boot and set it to boot from CD ROM) After accepting the EULA you will come to a screen that lets you delete or create partitions. Just delete them all if that is what you want and recreate one and it should automatically format in NTFS. You can choose to do a quick format or regular. Quick format just formats it while regular format checks the disk surface for errors while formatting which takes way longer than a quick format.