How to format a boot drive?

[BigShroom]

I'm getting ready to sell my old system but I need to wipe both the drive's and do a fresh install of windows XP. I figure I can just right click the non-boot drive in My Computer and format that one that way. I'm not sure how to go about wiping the boot drive though.

Setup:
Seagate 160gb, 1 10gb OS partition, 1 130gb data partition
WD 120gig, 1 110gb data partition

Both drives are IDE, seagate master and WD slave. Can anybody provide some advice?

 

[Frintin]

Use Darik's Boot and Nuke! Get it here.

 

[bendixG15]

the old fashioned way was to use a Win98 floppy boot disk

 

[Ruptga]

Originally posted by: bendixG15
the old fashioned way was to use a Win98 floppy boot disk

You can still do that with XP's install disk.

 

[BigShroom]

Originally posted by: Frintin
Use Darik's Boot and Nuke! Get it here.

This looks promising. May use this.

I don't have a floppy, would it possible to just boot from the xp cd and format from there?

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: BigShroom
I don't have a floppy, would it possible to just boot from the xp cd and format from there?

Yes!

 

[BigShroom]

Sweet, thanks for answering my stupid questions 🙂