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How do you reformat a computer?

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None. if you want to format a non-boot drive, find it in my computer, right click and select "format...". if you want to format your boot drive

[Be careful] , you usually need to stick in a windows CD and boot from disk, so that the computer knows what to do with itself afterwords.

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You can also do this from a terminal window (use the DOS 'format' command), however reformatting the computer will require you to reload the operating system from scratch (and you will lose all your data) before you can use it again.

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Assuming you are using Windows XP here's a tutorial

http://helpdesk.its.uiowa.edu/windows/instructions/reformat.htm

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