ever reformatted a hard drive?

AD720 · 05-13-2009, 07:25 PM

If you are not worried about backing anything up or saving anything it is a piece of cake.

1 - put the Window CD in the drive.
2 - restart the computer
3 - As soon as it comes back up go into the bios (should be F1, delete or something like that)
4 - Set the CD Drive as the first startup device
5 - exit bios
6 - when prompted press any key to start from CD
7 - follow the prompts in the Windows Setup.
8 - make sure you delete the partition and format it to a new partition (that is the step that wipes it).

More info from Microsoft:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341

05-13-2009, 07:25 PM	#1
AD720 I'm nuts for the place Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Andrew Location: The City of BOTL-erly Love Posts: 2,684 Trading: (73)	Re: ever reformatted a hard drive? If you are not worried about backing anything up or saving anything it is a piece of cake. 1 - put the Window CD in the drive. 2 - restart the computer 3 - As soon as it comes back up go into the bios (should be F1, delete or something like that) 4 - Set the CD Drive as the first startup device 5 - exit bios 6 - when prompted press any key to start from CD 7 - follow the prompts in the Windows Setup. 8 - make sure you delete the partition and format it to a new partition (that is the step that wipes it). More info from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315341 __________________