can anyone give me exact instructions how to format my hard disc c:.?

Question

I have two hard disks.

Answer 1

just load the windows bootable disk and den and den boot through the cd

and den format the c drive or any other drive okey

Answer 2

Well if your c drive is the drive you have installed your operating system on. Then you would cannot directly format c drive easily else follow the steps below.
1. Login into administrative account or account with admin previlages. If you are not sure about this continue to next step.
2. Right click on My Computer, the click on Manage.
3. Select Disk Management which appear on right hand side tab.
4. Now Right click on c: and click format.
5. To Format quickly select quick format.
6. Press OK.
If you installed OS on c: drive then remember formating c: will delete all content on it and subsequently the OS on it.
Considering you have windows XP installed on it.
1. Get the windows XP Boot cd.
2. Reboot your computer through cd.
3. Select repair option. when it ask if you want to install xp or repair it.
4. Select your partition where in you installed your OS.
5. Enter admin passwd.
6. On the command line enter the following command.
7. format c: /q

Done your c: drive is formated.

Answer 3

or you can follow these instructions
the right way alter bios:- first boot floppy
1. Format with a Win98/Me Startup disk.
2. Use a Windows 98/Me startup disk to delete the non-dos partition.
3. Boot from Startup Disk.
4. Load FDISK by typing "fdisk" at the "A" prompt without the quotes.
5. Say yes to large disk support ...........? [Y] ENTER
6. Enter choice #3 to "Delete partition or Logical Dos Drive" Press ESC to
return to FDISK options
7. Enter #4 to "Delete Non-DOS Partition". Select the Non-DOS partition by
typing the number and then ENTER. Press ESC to return to FDISK options.
Note you cannot delete a NON-DOS partition located inside an Extended
partition.
8. Reboot with startup disk and load FDISK.
9. Say yes to Large disk support as above.
10. Enter choice #1 Press ESC to return to FDISK options
11. When asked if you want to use the maximum size for the partition and make it
active, type Y if you want to use the whole drive, or N if you want to set a
maximum sized for the partition.
12. After setting the size, reboot.
13. If you want to install another OS; after reboot: Type format X: at the
A: prompt; where X is the drive/partition letter designation.
14.If you want to reinstall XP clean. After setting the size, reboot, remove the
disk from the floppy drive and insert the XP CD in the CD drive.
15. Boot from the XP CD and do a clean install to the new partition.
at step 14 you can install any os not nessessary xp

Answer 4

Boot up with windows disc It will format the drive.