formatting question!!

[crooked_letter]

Hi, i was wondering if formatting my computer is the same as formatting my laptop? I have a Dell Inspiron 2650......... I want to format it and i need to know if i am able to do it the normal dos way (or the XP cd way) I'm loading XP on it... also i have a DVD player does that make any difference?


thanks

[DoG]

As long as you can boot from your DVD Rom drive the process should be exactly the same.

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so if i wanna chek on how to boot from my DVD rom drive how do i do that......

[~*McoreD*~]

check list:
have u got a bootable windows xp cd?
(pretty sure) your BIOS should support booting from CD. so you could set the boot sequence as CDROM/C/A or whatever as long as CDROM comes first. (to go to BIOS, press DEL when starting the computer, u may know it awready )
after those things are okay, insert the CD into the selected drive (DVDROM in ur case) and restart the comptuer.
pretty sure the Windows XP setup should start.
GOOD LUCK!