Comments on: How to Format a Hard Drive With Windows XP

on 4/8/2008 Awesome intructions. I just wiped clean my husband's old desktop and it had two hard drives. After I reinstalled windows on one of them, I had no idea how to find, let alone reformat the other disc. These intructions were key. Thanks so much for making the task dummy proof.

on 3/31/2008 Thank you for such easy-to-follow instructions. Michelle

on 3/31/2008 Thank you so much for such easy-to-follow instructions. Everything was exactly as you said it would be! Michelle

on 3/30/2008 thank you very much, the instructions were awesome =]

on 3/21/2008 I'm so frustrated becaue every time I ask for help, I never have the options that these blogs say I should have. I want to format my hard drive so I can re-install my OS system, however, when I follow your instructions, my computer does not give me the options you list...."Unallocated”
"The New Partition Wizard comes up" , these things don't show up.
I only get a window that shows me my drive which is "C" which is what I want to format. I have no other options to do anything. Why don't I have the options you suggest? Please, I need to know how to format my drive in simple terms. I have a Dell 4550 desk Top and I'm running Windows XP if that helps.
Thank-You for any information you can offer.
JBL

on 2/24/2008 Outstanding article!! This made reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling Windows XP a breeze!

on 2/17/2008 i need help i had vista on my computer then i tryed putting xp pro on and, it deleted my OPS and when i get the the Delete Partition it says unknown and then i hit anything it pulls up a screen that says error, ur system has been shut down for safety reasons can u help me out

on 2/1/2008 I have been trying for three days to do this. Within five minutes, and your easy to follow instructions, my hard drive is now formatting perfectly

on 1/30/2008 Thanks, the instructions didn't quite equal what I had, but with fuzzy logic, it worked.
Appreciate it!

on 1/15/2008 I'm trying to format a used 160GB drive to use as a secondary storage drive. It has a 30GB partition, so I deleted the partition per these instructions in step 4 (very helpful article by the way). When I go to make a new partition to begin the formatting, it only allows me a maximum of 130GB for the new partition. Is there any way to recover the "lost" space to have my full 160GB of space?

on 12/20/2007 I just went through the instructions after struggling for hours on MS's website(now 2am ), but to no avail, your advise was realy more than helpful, and at last I have XP re-installed. Thanks for the help.

on 1/9/2008 Here is a link to video that show this process:
http://www.mindbites.com/lesson/291-how-to-reformat-your-pc-made-easy

on 11/29/2007 I got to step 10 and it took ages, but now i'm getting a message a disk read error occurred press ctrl alt del to restart, i do that and it does nothing. at times i get the message no emulation? it'a a brand new hard drive. it picks it up in the bios.

on 11/25/2007 I am trying to format my hard drive (unfortunately I came accross this article AFTER I attempted to format). It has been over 24 hours and the format is about halfway. I realise that this is WAY too long.. should I restart my computer and try again? Will this ruin my hard drive? Does anyone know why it might take so long?

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,

Bec.

on 11/21/2007 Hi, I'm very very happy 4 this important writeup,
i used it and it works quite fine.
Thank u very much.
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