How do I format & reload OS ?

Question

If someone can tell how to format & reload OS that will be great. Thanks!

Answer 1

Insert the OS cd and follow the directions. Life cant be simpler

Answer 2

1. Make sure you have your motherboard CD with you as sometime it would require your motherboard drivers to be installed.

2. Please note below mentioned process will format your all the drives so take the backup of your important data on a CD or flash drive.

3. You would require CDs of all the softwares which were installed on your system as they would be lost.

If you have a windows XP bootable CD.

Then start your computer and enter setup to check if your CD drive is the first boot drive. If yes then insert XP CD in CD ROM and restart or if not then change the First Boot Device to CD ROM and press F10 to save and exit setup.

Then You will get bluw screens and messages flashing at the bottom of the screen.

Press F8 when it asks to agree.

Press Enter where it asks to install or repair.

It will list all the partitions on the screen and select all the partitions one by one and press "L" on keyboard to delete partition. (If you want to format your harddrive completely.)

When you are through with the deletion you will see only "C:" drive in the list and then press "C" to create partitions.

Once you are done with the partition creation, select "C" and press enter to install OS.