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I believe there is no way to reformat your computer without the CD, unless you are willing to use system restore?

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How to reformat laptop

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    If you have the recovery cd, you can just pop-in the CD, select the reformat option and the installation process will continue automatically. Some laptop might have a special partition in the drive contains the operating system, drivers, etc. in case you want to reformat your laptop without the CD.

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    If you don't have the recovery CD, you usually can request one from the manufacturer. Otherwise, if you want to do a clean install, make sure you download all the drivers for your laptop, this may includes: motherboard, chipset, graphic card, sound card, modem, network card. Once you do that, put in the OS CD and start installing.

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    If you decided to do a clean install without the recovery CD, it would be best to create partition on your harddrive first, so you can have dedicated partition for operating system and backup. The next time you want to reformat your harddrive, you can just reformat that particular partition ex. C:\

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    May 05, 2011 • Computers & Internet
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    My operating system was damaged by virus,i need ro reformat my computer..how can i reformat my competer?
    Install the XP discs and restart the machine. It should boot from the discs. Then follow the onscreen instructions. You will want to reformat your main drive. (C:)
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    Apr 04, 2011 • Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service...
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    How to reformat window xp
    Reformat the Hard Drive in Windows XP
    1. To reformat a hard drive with Windows XP, insert Windows CD and restart your computer.

    2. Your computer should automatically boot from the CD to the Windows Setup Main Menu.(If not, press F2 or DEL and choose first boot device CD or DVD)

    3. At the Welcome to Setup page, press ENTER.

    4. Press F8 to accept the Windows XP Licensing Agreement.

    5. If an existing Windows XP installation is detected, you are prompted to repair it. To bypass the repair, press ESC.

    6. Use the ARROW keys to select the partition or the unpartitioned space where you want to create a new partition. Press D to delete an existing partition, or press C to create a new partition.

    7. Type the size in megabytes (MB) that you want to use for the new partition, and then press ENTER, or just press ENTER to create the partition with the maximum size.

    8. Select the format option that you want to use for the partition (Recommended: NTFS), and then press ENTER.

    9. You have now sucessfully reformatted the hard drive with Windows XP.
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    Jan 02, 2011 • Microsoft Windows XP Professional
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    My computer is missing important system files
    > type the path ...

    Specify: C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386

    as the "path".
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    Jun 23, 2010 • Computers & Internet
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    How to reformat the windows xp to my pc
    to boot from cd press F11
    Then press enter
    1. To reformat a hard drive with Windows XP, insert Windows CD and restart your computer.

    2. Your computer should automatically boot from the CD to the Windows Setup Main Menu.

    3. At the Welcome to Setup page, press ENTER.

    4. Press F8 to accept the Windows XP Licensing Agreement.

    5. If an existing Windows XP installation is detected, you are prompted to repair it. To bypass the repair, press ESC.

    6. Use the ARROW keys to select the partition or the unpartitioned space where you want to create a new partition. Press D to delete an existing partition, or press C to create a new partition.

    7. Type the size in megabytes (MB) that you want to use for the new partition, and then press ENTER, or just press ENTER to create the partition with the maximum size.

    8. Select the format option that you want to use for the partition (Recommended: NTFS), and then press ENTER.

    9. You have now sucessfully reformatted the hard drive with Windows XP.

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    Jun 23, 2010 • Microsoft Windows XP Professional With...
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    How do I format C drive with windows 7 on it I want to put windows XP on
    hi

    thank you for using Fixya

    to formate C drive and re install windows XP

    1 put widows XP CD in to your CD drive
    2 restart your PC
    3 it will boot your CD just put Enter
    4 if not then selact boot option by presing F12 0r F2
    5 it will start reding your CD

    then just folow the instruction

    it will ask you foue setps


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    May 16, 2010 • Compaq Presario CQ60-220US PC Laptop
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    Not installed os in my loptop
    http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9040318/FAQ_Giving_up_on_Vista_Here_s_how_to_downgrade_to_XP
    http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9108198/Microsoft_offers_free_Vista_to_XP_downgrade_help
    Obviously, the most convenient way to downgrade is to do so without reformatting. In order to do that, you need to have a real retail CD of Windows XP. If all you have is a recovery disk that came with your computer, you’re not going to be able to do it this way. You will need to reformat.
    To downgrade, use the following as a guide:
    1. Do a full backup of your current, Vista system. If something happens, you can always revert to the backup.
    2. Boot your computer off the Windows XP disc. Just pop the CD into the CD-ROM and reboot. If, for some reason, your computer boots without looking for the CD drive, you need to go into your system BIOS and change the boot order so that it checks for the CD drive during the boot process.
    3. When the computer asks to press the space bar to boot from the CD, do so.
    4. When Windows XP Setup starts up, press “R” to enter the recovery.
    5. If it asks you to choose a Windows installation, press a number and hit Enter. The likely number will be 1.
    6. If you get asked for an Administrator password, enter when asked. If you do not know it, you will need to abort and go back into Windows Vista to get your password.
    7. At the command prompt, we’re going to use the “fixboot” command. We’ll use the following commands in sequence to prep for XP:
      8. fixboot
      fixmbr
      cd \
      ren windows winvista
      exit
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    May 09, 2010 • Computers & Internet
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    Acer Power SV, I need to reformat but no Wn Xp disc
    buddy you have to need xp window cd you can buy it or take from your freind without xp window cd you cannot install window.
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    Oct 20, 2009 • AcerPower SV PC Desktop
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    I have the message disk error occurred. I did a diagnostic test and the DST failed show number 1000-0146...can I fixed this without having to buy a recovery disk..and I do not have a windows cd...can it be...
    Hi Johnson, I think the best bet would be to reformat your disk and that you need a windows cd or download it from the internet. Are you using Windows XP? This normally happens when you remove a disk from one pc and put it into another pc, it tells you you have a disk error, only with windows XP! Best of luck , Sir John
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    Oct 15, 2009 • Dell Inspiron 6000 Notebook
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    Hello the hard drive of our laptop needs a full reformat so i can reinstall xp but how do i format it without a working opperating system? thank you
     You can do a full reformat right from the windows xp install disk.  Put the xp disk in the cdrom drive and restart the computer.  Upon restarting a message will come up ( Hit any key to boot from CD )  Hit any key,  the files will load then you will be able to format the hard drive and also load windows XP.
        If for some reason your system doesnt boot from the cd, you might have to go into the Bios and change the boot order from the hard drive or the floppy to the cd so the computer will boot from the CD first. Hope this helps...                                                           Joe > Data Miner <
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