reformatting laptop hard driv

clem28_2

Hi can anyone give me details of how to reformat hard drive on my laptop

Jaffa.

Are you planning on re-installing Windows or do you want to format an extended partition or external hard drive?

clem28_2

re installing windows on laptop

Jaffa.

Okay, do you have an Original Windows CD or do you have recovery disks provided by your manufacture?

clem28_2

recovery disc

daily_2

boot from it

clem28_2

how do you know if boot up is from cd before hard drive and how to make this right for installing from recovery cd cheers

daily_2

Instructions should be in the manual, or manufacturers website.

Jaffa.

clem28 wrote: »

how do you know if boot up is from cd before hard drive and how to make this right for installing from recovery cd cheers

You can check the settings in the BIOS (press del , Esc or one of the 'F' keys, it should say on post which one to press to enter 'setup') which you access on the post screen before Windows starts to load up.

If you put the disk in and reboot the computer it should just boot to the disk anyway. You may have to press enter (or any key) to boot from the CD when prompted.

clem28_2

daily,
if it was that easy i would have done it,
how do you know if booting from cd or how can you make it so

diable

clem28 wrote: »

daily,
if it was that easy i would have done it,
how do you know if booting from cd or how can you make it so

Follow the advice already given you will know when you have booted from the CD