how do i erase my harddrive and start over?

Answer 1

Assuming you're using MS Windows, use the FDisk tool provided. See the link below for more information....

Good luck!

Answer 2

Well if you want to start completely over put you windows disc in and when it ask's you if you want to boot from disc after restarting. Once it goes to the menu follow the instrutions on the screen to format the drive you want to reload on. On thats down follow the instrutions on the screen to format a new partition and then it will go through all the steps to have a clean install.

Answer 3

Just reformat it from My Computer, but that only works for spare drives, not Drive C. If you would like to reinstall and erase everything, i suggest boot from XP disk and install a fresh piece of XP on there.

Answer 4

Either use the delete key to delete each file or use the
"format" (usually under 'file' ) to format each drive. If you
have a lot of drives on your hard drive, you can use 'fdisk'
command in the dos mode, but beware you will probably
need to re-install the operating system if you do this and
re-partition the hard drive.

Answer 5

Go into your bios and change the boot sequence to boot your cdrom first. Then insert your windows xp cd. Follow the instruction and fdisk, format, reinstall your pc.

Answer 6

Double click My Computer

Right Click the drive you want to clean

Scroll down to Format

Click this

Be Really sure you want to do it

Then press OK

Answer 7

are you using windows xp or windows 98 i know this is stupid since most people arent using windows 98 as much anymore.

if you use windows 98 we need the original disk and a DOS boot floppy.

If you have windows XP all we need is the install disk or restore disk with your computer

Answer 8

"Format C". If your using a Microsoft operating system, you'll get use to this term.