Wiping a hard drive & starting over

[97fordrunner]

He guys, I have a Dell Netbook with Windows XP and want to wipe the hard drive and start from scratch, is there a way to do this? I did download a program called Kill Disk but that just cleaned up the drives. And I tried Formating it but being that it only has 1 drive it doesn't allow that to work. I know if it had a CD drive I could put in the windows CD but no such luck there. Thanks

 

[Mirage]

Most Dell's have a hidden partition on the hard rive that holds a copy of windows. You may have to look it up online, but I think if you power it off, then hold down the F12 key, and power it back on, holding the F12 key the whole time, you should get a screen that asks if you are sure you want to reinstall windows. If you answer "yes", it will wipe the drive and re-install windows for you, it will also install all the old drivers that came with your Dell. Just like factory fresh.

Best of luck!

 

[97fordrunner]

perfect, Ill try it later tonight.