My desktop completly crashed, loaded with trojans, and all kinds of irratating crap, called dell they sent me the Windows XP Media center reinstall disk & my drivers disks for a fresh start, I can still get on my computer, however I am wanting to erase my entire C/: drive before I install, pretty much giving it a fresh start again, I have numerous spare drives a 500 gb external a 400 gb internal, and an 80 gb internal which is C/: and the opsystem and programs use, the rest is for muiltimedia, and such. I was just curious as to if I could possibly go in, without booting up, but doing like a dos prompt, and erase the whole C Drive, boot from the reinstall disk, partition it back, and install and do my driver re-install? I just dont want to have all these added files on my media drives if I were to swap em, format, and swap em back, it tends to be a pain...looking for some input or ideas! Thanks