Formating my Inspiron 5160

[Guest]

How Do I format my hardrive so I can reinstall Windows XP. I have lots of
junk on my hard drive I can't get rid of so want to delte and start all over?
Thanks

 

[Ricky]

See if this helps..
http://support.dell.com/support/top...alid=&treeid=FFA33DA99941FEDFE030030ABD62041A

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

How Do I format my hardrive so I can reinstall Windows XP. I have
lots of junk on my hard drive I can't get rid of so want to delte and
start all over? Thanks

Just boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary to
accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean installation (delete the
existing partition by pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one).

You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm

or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm