Help... I am looking into dumping my hard drive because of viruses and reinstalling windows xp I don't need to save anything just want to start fresh... I have a HP Pavillion 7917 and I am not sure how to doit... Thanks... I know that staples does it but they charge an arm and a leg.... I know with some Help I can do it...

trojan horse is really affects your pc there are moments that it locks your control panel sometimes you can not open your internet explorer. so the solution will be reformatting your hard disk trojan horse is really affects your pc there are moments that it locks your control panel sometimes you can not open your internet explorer. so the solution will be reformatting your hard disk

open your bios setting just press the delete key while your pc is on boot then select your 1st boot device as cd rom insert your winxp to cd rom save and exit. upon boot up, there will appear in your screen "PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM YOUR CD ROM" you may press any key then it will run your cd wait for the instructions that will come out in your screen. next message to appear in your screen will be if you will install a new fresh copy of windows xp just select INSTALL NEW, a message selection "if you want to install new, press ENTER, if you want to delete the partition press L if you want repair press R if you want to cancel press esc, and everything will go on while installing you just wait it will reboot after completion of saving to your hard disk do not press any key once it reboot because it will read back your cd rom let it go to read the save files in your hard drive then a message will appear " 39 minutes to install" just wait for this to complete & the instruction. you need to prepare the following: the license key of your winxp cd your name of course and the administrator password, it depends on you if you want to have password if you don't just leave it blank by pressing NEXT everything will soon complete just for the instruction.

I AM HOPING THAT THIS WILL HELP YOU IT WOULD BE A GREAT FEELING ON MY PART EVERYTIME I LEARNED A SUCCESSFUL INSTALLATION OF WIN XP HAVE DONE. A GREAT FEELING OF SHARING WHAT I'VE LEARNED. open your bios setting just press the delete key while your pc is on boot then select your 1st boot device as cd rom insert your winxp to cd rom save and exit. upon boot up, there will appear in your screen "PRESS ANY KEY TO BOOT FROM YOUR CD ROM" you may press any key then it will run your cd wait for the instructions that will come out in your screen. next message to appear in your screen will be if you will install a new fresh copy of windows xp just select INSTALL NEW, a message selection "if you want to install new, press ENTER, if you want to delete the partition press L if you want repair press R if you want to cancel press esc, and everything will go on while installing you just wait it will reboot after completion of saving to your hard disk do not press any key once it reboot because it will read back your cd rom let it go to read the save files in your hard drive then a message will appear " 39 minutes to install" just wait for this to complete & the instruction. you need to prepare the following: the license key of your winxp cd your name of course and the administrator password, it depends on you if you want to have password if you don't just leave it blank by pressing NEXT everything will soon complete just for the instruction.
I AM HOPING THAT THIS WILL HELP YOU IT WOULD BE A GREAT FEELING ON MY PART EVERYTIME I LEARNED A SUCCESSFUL INSTALLATION OF WIN XP HAVE DONE. A GREAT FEELING OF SHARING WHAT I'VE LEARNED.