Reinstalling Windows XP Help!!

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From: Lisa (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 13:54:09 -0800

My laptop will not boot the cd from a reboot, I went into
the bios and the first boot the cd drive, if I install
Windows within Windows will it let me format the hard
drive? Any help would be great, thank you!!!

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