Hi All,

A long time ago I set my C partion as my swap file, created a D partion and installed Windows XP (guess I must have set this as a primary partion but my memory fails me it was years ago) then created a E partion that held all my data. All Fat32.

Today I thought I reinstalled Windows XP telling it to format the HDD to NTFS. To my shock it actually installed it to my E partion leaving the C and D partions in place.

What I want to do is simply scrub my HDD clean and back to a C partion, have the HDD drive formatted to NTFS and install Windows XP clean.

How can I best do this?

Hope someone can help.

Cheers
Hoax

Boot from the XP CD delete all three partitions then create a new partition and format it. this can all be done from the XP CD just follow the onscreen instructions.