Formatting your computer?

Question

I need to format my computer but the only thing is that my computer doesnt have a floppy drive. I was wondering if there is a way to format my computer without a floppy and without having to take the HDD out? If there is someone that knows how please do tell.

Answer 1

if you have a CD/DVD drive, put any windows O/S cd in there and boot up. It should by default boot from the CD, where you have the option to format the drive.

Answer 2

No floppy is likely to be able to format a current drive, most are on ntfs which dos floppies can't read. When you re-format you will lose EVERYTHING. Boot from the Windows disk, at the first prompt ask for install, at the second you should see the current install, use the D delete option to remove the partition, then create a new partition and load to that.

Answer 3

You dont need either a floppy drive or hard drive removal to reformat.
You will need a CD with a formatting utility such as either Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Vista
(Vista is not recommended as it is highly incompatable with everything), or a good open source software such as www.kubuntu.org
With either of these, when you reload the OS, it will offer the option of reformatting. The Kubuntu is free, the Windows CD's are hundreds of dollars. You choose.

Answer 4

before you format your hard drive make sure you have all the drivers for your hardware, if you don't your going to be up the river without a paddle and your system won't work as it should,

others will give you info on how to format your hard drive....

Answer 5

if you want to format the drive with the windows in it. pop winXP cd install the windows, then format the drive you want, then install a fresh winXP.
if your not formatting the windows drive, rightclick on the drive click format.

Answer 6

go to Control Panel>Performance and Maintenance>Free Up Space On My HardDisk