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[sitac2000 Profile]

Whats an Easy way to Format my HD for Windows XP?

[tshooter Profile]

I think the best way is to go to your hdd manufacturer's web site and see if they have a hard disk formatting utility available. If not a dos format utility is available. Boot from an xp or win98 boot disk. At the command promt type " Format C: ". then confirm. One thing, I found, that with fairly big hdd's the dos formatting utility " format C:" has trouble recognising large hdd's. So the hdd's manufacturer's utility will be best...

[MadDad Profile]

There is no reason at all to format your harddrive before installing. After booting from the WinXP CD, setup will present you with a menu that allows you to pick the partition, select between FAT32 and NTFS and subsequently format the partition.