I have tried re-formatting my HP laptop and it is pretty much impossible as far as i can tell plz help?

Question

i used to have a dell laptop and this was easy to reformat with a cd containng a OS setup eg windows xp but when i try it with my new HP laptop it comes up with stuff about i do not have permission to change partitions my HP laptop has vista home premium on it and i just wanted to know if HP just had some sort of block on re formatting

Answer 1

You need to be a bit clearer as to what you're trying to format.

Answer 2

Because Vista has more security features you will need to be the administrator So you need to set properties for this and also HP may not be fully 100% IBM compliant and may need their front end to utilize all hardware installed. Are you formatting from within Windows or on boot up? XP and Vista are Not compatible.

Answer 3

Can you be little more specific, what do you mean by "it is pretty much impossible as far as I can tell"?

Answer 4

Its really easy to format a device. Give us some more info as to why your having difficulties. Any error messages?