How to Reform a Personal Computer?

REFORMATING A PERSONAL COMPUTER

Steps to Reformat a Personal Computer

1. Start your PC and PRESS key F2, F12 or DELETE key ( Depends on your PC Model ) 

        

  Your PC BIOS Setting will be displayed. Find boot menu. In boot device priority select CD-ROM as first boot device.

2. Your PC will boot from CD and windows installation will start. Press Enter at this screen.

3. Accept licence agreement by pressing F8 Key

4. Delete the partitions.

5. Create the partitions.

6. Define the size of partitions.

7. Now select your desired partitions of installation of windows XP and press enter.

8. Choose to format the partitions. Choose NTFS file system quick.

9. Setup will format the partitions.

10. After formatting, setup will start copying files on the hard disk.

11. After copying of files, setup will start installing windows.

12. Select desired language and regional settings, when prompted by setup.

13. Enter windows key.

14. Type a name for your computer.

15. Select time and date settings and time zone according to your country.

16. Provide network settings for network pc's or select typical settings and press enter.

17. Setup will install devices and register components.

18. After completion setup will do a cleanup of files and will start your pc automatically. At this stagr you can remove CD from drive.

PARTITIONING 
          Disk partitioning is the creation of one or more regions on a  hard disk or other secondary storage, so that an operating system can manage information in each region separately.

           Partitioning is typically the first step of preparing a newly manufactured disk, before any files or directories have been created.