Question: Formating Windows XP? This is what i am trying to do. I want to format windows XP pro from a lap top. I have neither a floppy drive for it or the XP pro disk as i have bought this from a friend. I know you can use the windows 98 boot disk to format it (done it once before but forgot how) what i need is someone to show me how to do this and give me a link to a 98 boot disk i can put onto a CD instead of floppy, also if anyone has a good step by step guide of how to do the 98 method of formatting a XP computer please post that also. Thanks ahead of time!

Answer: --dude, she doesn't have a floppy drive\n\nYes you could put it on a bootable CD.\n\ngive us a little more info because I don't want to cause you to do something you don't want.\n\nFormat = ERASE EVERYTHING\n\nSo you want to erase everything on your hard drive?  Do you want to reinstall Windows afterwards?  If you want to reinstall Windows afterwards, you need a real Windows CD, not one of those recovery CDs.\n\nYou could take the hard drive out of the laptop and stick it in a desktop computer and format it from there (though you might need an adapter).  I've done this before.
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