Hi, I have just got a desktop pc from a friend and want to clean it up. It has Xp loaded and and want to delete it and the entire hard disk in its entirety. How can I do this?
Thanks
That depends on what you want to do with it next. If you delete the entire harddisk, you'll have to install an Operating System again. If you want to re-install Windows XP, all you have to do is boot from the install CD and in the beginning of the installation process it will ask you what to do with the current lay-out of the disk.
1) remove the hard drive then install it as a slave in a second pc. then format it through windows.
or
2) you can get a utitlty like 'maxllf' ( maxtor low level format) which runs in dos and this will wipe it clean ( but it will take a long time if it's a big hard drive).
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