i want to format a hard drive that has windows xp installed can i format drive even if you dont have windows xp cd this is an old computer i picked up and needs a good clean out thanks helen06
Formatting a hard drive or one of its partitions will completely erase everything on it. So, if you don't have a CD from which to reinstall Windows, don't do it.
yes, goto Bootdisk.Com and download a Win98 bootdisk creator boot off the floppy you created and type Code: format C: (assuming C: is the partition you wish to format)[ot] you only need the XP CD if you want to reload or clean install XP[/ot]
