Re: How can I reformat harddrive

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

You should have restore disks that came with the PC from Dell. Give
Dell support a call.

"cwturley" <cwturley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9E27721E-B231-44EB-9BB2-7ABA353E9D24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have a Dell laptop that was running 2000 Professional. Somehow in
>setting
> up a home network I began getting a login page asking for an Administrator
> password that I had not set up and did not have. Could not get around it
> in
> any way. So, I installed an extra copy of XP Home that I had never
> installed. That allowed me to get the computer running but the harddrive
> in
> the laptop is too small to run XP effectively. So, I want to start over
> and
> reformat the harddrive and reinstall the 2000 Pro. But, nothing I am
> trying
> will allow me to format the harddrive. Suggestions?


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