formating with xp

hi i have been having some problems with my lap top, so i have decided to format the hard drive, but dont know hao to do it, when i have formated my pc in the past, it gives me an option to format it in that blue screen you get when u boot from cd.

with my laptop it just gives me install a copy of windows, repair or exit.

any ideas???

i have a rock quadra 64

cheers

paul

 

i wana get clear all the hard drive and install a fresh copy, i have backed up every thing, i all redy have two partitions and have 2 copys of xp on it, thats why i wana format the lot start fresh with on partition and one copy of xp

cheers

 

i did that and it just instaled another copy of xp now i have three! lol

 

hi, having a bit of a crissis now!! since my laptop dosent have a floppy drive i have no idea how to create a boot disk with the kill disk program on it, i tryed using me ubi stick but it wont let me format it and put ms dos start up disk, if u know what i mean???

any ideas??? cheers

paul

 

Have a look over here. That might get you going.

 

wel i tryed it. i think it is because i am using a recovery disk that i got from the manufactur. i maby if i use a windows cd, not a recovery it will work. but if that dosent work any more ideas???????

cheers for your help by the way

pau

 

Thought you were taliking about normal XP.....if there is such a thing.

There should be a way to format the drive using the recovery cd but I've never done it. Someone should be able to help you out though.

Does it come with a manual?