Reconfigure notebook knotty drive?

I want to reconfigure my XP computer, and by that I suggest wipe the whole rock-hard drive and start over fresh. How do I do this. Only suggest ideas that you enjoy tried and work 100%

Reconfigure notebook knotty drive?

Run dban on it http://dban.sourceforge.net/ Then reinstall your OS. This a more secure method of removing the information from your PC. This will delete EVERYTHING.
in recent times start with xp cd within drive follow instructions, it will be very uncomplicated done it hundreds of times
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How to partition and format a complicated disk in Windows XP



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In suitcase you backed up everything you obligation from the hard drive, adjectives you need to do is:

Put the installation disc, restart the system (the disc will be read automatically).

After installation have started, you'll have an route there to format the easier said than done drive. Chose the FULL formatting (will take around 10 minutes), and then you're move about to go from at hand.
insert the windows compact disc and run it, then click on format drive.
* i us a program call partition artifice but you can do it with your xp disc
Make a bootable MS DOS Floppy disk... Insert it until that time starting the computer... Go in MS DOS prompt (which looks similar to C:\ where C can be a,b,c,d,e doesn`t matter what as its the drive name).

Now format your Hard Drive (C:, D:, E:, etc.)



Easier way is to put the XP Bootable compact disc inside and start the installation. Is asks you where you want to install XP... You enjoy many option there... You can also format the drive beside the better NTFS file system to some extent than FAT32...