How to reformat a hard drive?

[Praisewarrior]

I have an EMachine and I want to take the hard drive down to nothing and
reformat this machine. For some unknown reason it created a wall split
the hard drive and I want to sell it now so I would also like to remove
everything and put XP back on or can I do this without removing XP?

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

I have an EMachine and I want to take the hard drive down to nothing and
reformat this machine.

"How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348/en-us

 

[Praisewarrior]

"Praisewarrior" (e-mail address removed) wrote:
-
I have an EMachine and I want to take the hard drive down to nothing
and
reformat this machine.-

"How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348/en-us

Thank you for your help. This will save me about a hundred dollars.

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

Thank you for your help. This will save me about a hundred dollars.

You're certainly welcome.

 

[LVTravel]

Put your emachines recovery CD in the drive and boot from
it. If this is a Windows XP cd it will allow you to
repartition and format the drive before installing XP to its
beginning state.

If your recovery cd is a system restore CD it will boot and
if you allow it, it will delete and reformat the drive and
install an image of XP and all other files that originally
came on the computer.

Both ways all data will be lost so make sure you have your
data saved to a removable source before dumping the drive
with either method above.

If you have two partitions on the drive and either method is
used, your data on the second partition may not be deleted.
Since you don't want your computer going to someone else
with your data on it, right click on My Computer then left
click on Manage and then left click on Disk manager. Right
click on the second partition of drive 0 and delete the
partition and then right click again and create a partition
and format the new partition. This will remove your data so
that many prying eyes won't see. It won't keep the
professional snoops from recovering the data. For that you
will need a program that wipes the drive.

 

[Rock]

I have an EMachine and I want to take the hard drive down to nothing and
reformat this machine. For some unknown reason it created a wall split
the hard drive and I want to sell it now so I would also like to remove
everything and put XP back on or can I do this without removing XP?

I'm curious, what exactly is "it created a wall split the hard drive.."?