Formatting hard drive

[Guest]

I have 2000nt and xp on my machine. I was having problems with boot up and
when I connected to the internet it would reboot. So I used the restore
program by Lenten and it asked me to seperate my data and file system. Guess
that I did not do it right. Out of 26000mb I put 8008 into C. Now when I
boot it get the error that I have no OS. Please tell me how to get to the
dos prompt when I boot so that I can format from there. Also I no longer
want to have 2 OS's I will just want to work from one, so do I need to have
partitions? I will only be putting xp back on and I believe that I need and
existing win os to do that. Thanks in advance for all of your help

 

[Rich Barry]

Dawn, if your cdrom drive is set for first boot device in Bios you might
be able to just do a clean install of WinXP.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html During the
install procedure you can format and delete
partitions.

 

[Guest]

I did change to boot from cd and formatted the partition to ntfs and now
setup goes through to copying files and then reboots. I have done this
several times and even went into bios and disabled the hdd recovery. The
highest that setup has gotten is to 27% and then reboots. I have also gotten
an error message about setting the shadow and cache. Please help.
Thanks