In need of reformatting instructions

Hello, I ordered an Inspiron 6000d last Thursday, and it's scheduled to arrive tomorrow (side note - that's a quick build time/delivery cycle!). I'm thinking about reformatting the harddrive soon after receiving it. Can someone please supply detailed instructions on how to go about doing this?

Thanks.

 

for those wanting to reformat and not to sure how.

first what you wanna do is while the computer is booting up push f7 in the menus there your going to want to set the boot order of the computer to boot from the cd drive first.

now exit out of that and let windows boot up.

put your xp cd in the drive and restart your computer

your computer should now boot up into a blue screen with a couple options one of those options should say something like format a partition and install windows. Choose this option. (if you get to this screen and the options don't sound anything like what I posted post what it says and I or somebody else can send ya in the right direction, I say this cause Im typing from memory here not actually looking at the screens)

the on screen instruction should be pretty self explanitory from there.

once that is done you'll go through all the win xp start up stuff and may have to register your copy of windows.




this is probably the easiest way to do it because you don't have to worry about not having an operating system installed on your hard drive.

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by backup7