Complete System Recovery

[John Gudgin]

I am using Windows XP Home edition.
I want to completely erase hard disk and I am sure that there was a button I
could press during start-up that gave me a menu to do a complete recovery,
erasing everything except Windows XP.
Unfortunately, I can't remember how to access this.

If anyone out there knows what I'm on about, and knows how I get to this
option, I would greatly appreciate your help.

Thanks,
John.

 

[Jerry]

You boot from the XP CD and then you do the things you mentioned. To boot
from the CD you will have to change the boot order in the BIOS.

 

[Ricky]

Depends on the make of computer. I have an HP and I have to hit F10 to
do a recovery.