Louise said:
I bought my pc off a friend, and I need to reformat it but the disc has
been
lost can anyone help me in simple terms as to what I can do
If you don't have a disk, then you can't reinstall, unless there is what's
called a "recovery partition".
You can of course format the drive, but that isn't going to help you a lot,
as once that's done, the system won't have an operating system till you
install one.
You can borrow an XP boot CD and format using that - there isn't really any
licensing issue using an XP CD for this - or you can attach the drive to
another system and format it from there.
I suspect that what you ultimately wanted to do goes a bit further than just
formatting the drive. More details on that might get you more information.
HTH
-pk