How to format my Laptop (Not that a stupid question)

[Atomic]

I have a Toshiba laptop that's a few years old, and had to reformat it - only problem is that 38% into installin Xp on this laptop the whole thing crashed. Now when I try to reinstall Win Xp I have a problem and get a blue screen with partmgr.sys error message.

Now I would like to format this partition and maybe delete it and create it, but I can't get far now into the Windows setup due to that error message. So are there any good freeware programs that can be put on to a CD and booted from the cd drive at start up that can format and partition a hard drive that's around 15-30GB in size.

I hear GParted can do something like this, but does that have the ability to format a partition.

All help/advice is welcome.

Thank you

 

[Silverwolf]

http://www.ehow.com/how_6026_format-hard-drive.html

 

[Fothsn]

The HDD manufacture usually has tools on their website under the support page, these will include a format tool or the like, do you know the maker of the HDD by any chance?

This is also an excellent CD

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

 

[Atomic]

It's a Toshiba laptop with a Toshibia ATA 2.5 harddrive inside it.

I just need a tool that's bootable and can format *** partition.

 

[Deleted member 64478]

fdisk windows 98 boot floppy

 

[Fothsn]

It's a Toshiba laptop with a Toshibia ATA 2.5 harddrive inside it.

I just need a tool that's bootable and can format *** partition.

Download the boot CD I have linked to, this is bootable and has the tools you want.


http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

 

[Atomic]

Thank you so much.

I'll give it a try later.

 

[Burnsy2023]

Even if if you format the drive, the fact that Windows setup couldn't do it means there is a underlying problem, most likely with the HDD itself or the RAM.

Solve the problem not the symptoms

Burnsy