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Formatting a Dell Inspiron 6000

bigpaddy2004 · 2007-06-28 00:10:42

My brother has given me his laptop to fix. It needs to be re-formatted in a bad way. I have the winxp cd which came with it. There is no floppy drive to run fdisk or anything like that. How would I go about formatting it?

28-06-2007 12:10am

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My brother has given me his laptop to fix. It needs to be re-formatted in a bad way. I have the winxp cd which came with it. There is no floppy drive to run fdisk or anything like that. How would I go about formatting it?

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#2 28-06-2007 12:13am

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You can use the Windows XP CD. Pop it in at startup, (you may have to set the CD drive to be the first boot device in the BIOS menu) and you can delete the partitions there and format it. After that you can install Windows.

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#3 03-07-2007 1:30pm

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hi mate restart your computer have the cd in the drive tap f12 till you get a boot menu select boot of cd dvdand hit any key when it askes you do it.and get into windows install

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