Hello, I need some help..... I have windows XP home Ed. and a Maxtor hard
drive. On the hard drive I have only one partition. I would like to delete
everything and start installing windows on it again. I tried to format the
drive through the propties for the C:drive it would not let me do it. Does
anyone have Ideas how I can do this? Thank 4 all the help.

Insert the retail CD into the tray. When the window pops up, exit. Reboot
your computer. Look for a sentence during boot that says: "To boot from CD
press any key". Press a key. Follow the directions. You can reformat during
the reinstall.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"jon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:8C200B8D-CB09-452E-9D84-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello, I need some help..... I have windows XP home Ed. and a Maxtor hard
> drive. On the hard drive I have only one partition. I would like to delete
> everything and start installing windows on it again. I tried to format the
> drive through the propties for the C:drive it would not let me do it. Does
> anyone have Ideas how I can do this? Thank 4 all the help.

Thankz it worked fine.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> Insert the retail CD into the tray. When the window pops up, exit. Reboot
> your computer. Look for a sentence during boot that says: "To boot from CD
> press any key". Press a key. Follow the directions. You can reformat during
> the reinstall.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "jon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:8C200B8D-CB09-452E-9D84-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello, I need some help..... I have windows XP home Ed. and a Maxtor hard
> > drive. On the hard drive I have only one partition. I would like to delete
> > everything and start installing windows on it again. I tried to format the
> > drive through the propties for the C:drive it would not let me do it. Does
> > anyone have Ideas how I can do this? Thank 4 all the help.
>
>
>