How Do I Format My Hard Drive?

I would approaching to format my WINDOWS XP hard drive so that i may run Linux.

My Drive Label Is PRESARIO

Does anyone know how top format my complex drive?

How Do I Format My Hard Drive?

Try this program called Kill Disk http://www.killdisk.com/ It's free.
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I don't fathom out why you;d want to do that. Most Linux installations just install near Windows XP already there. Mine did. It simply made a partition and installed a boot loader that let you select Windows or Linux
So you want to use linux, yet you dont know how to format a drive..



Good luck.
I would use FDisk

This article from the wisdom base at microsoft can saunter you through it.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867...



You do understand by formatting you will not enjoy XP afterwards. You may know that, but thought i'd mention it. Not everyone does know that.
If what you want to do is be able to run both XP and Linux, I recommend obtain a current version of Partition Magic (there are other products that do this, but I've have good results near this one). It will allow you to resize the XP partition and create the partition you will need for Linux. If adjectives you want to do is wipe out XP and replace it beside Linux, your Linux install should do it for you.

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