Formatting issues

[grayvus]

I'm having trouble trying to format my C drive. I'm not a big tech guy so any help given would be awesome.

My OS is xp. My friend who is a big tech guy, built the PC himself so it does not have a factory CD. I still have my original XP CD though.

I've been to many websites/forums/youtube and I've gotten no where.

From what I've been told I am to put the windows XP CD in, restart computer and boot from the CD. I don't get prompted to do this during the start up. In the BIOS section of the start up (I think thats what its called) there is a "Boot" section. But nowhere does it say Boot from CD.

Please for the love of christ someone must have an anwer for me.

 

[KSoD]

In the boot section what does it say?

Does it information like ACPI, IDE, SATA and that? If you can take i pic of the screen with a digital camera or just write down what it says so we can give you the correct way to get it to boot from CD first.

 

[grayvus]

ok gimme one sec i'll check it again

under the boot tab it has a few options>

Boot device priority:
Boot device 1
Boot Device 2
3
4



Security:
Just has password change options

thanks for responding, finally found the answer. Appeaerently my motherboard is gay and I had to hold f8 to bring up the prompt. Thanks for the effort