How do you reformat this?

[sj022698]

My bad, I didn't notice you had no floppy drive. Here is the link for the powermax ISO. Make sure you burn the image to disc and not make a data CD out of it.

You're awesome. I appreciate your help. I know this sounds dumb but I've read the Maxtor site but I don't understand a single thing that I need to do. What will this powermax do for me?
Can I select items to clean?
Does it restore everything?
Does it just clean up everything automatically?

I'm sorry for the questions.

I have an HP L2000
100 GB HD
1GB RAM
16x DVDR/CDRW DL
I've just never worked with the old computers or done any formating or partitioning on my computers. The closest I've come was putting in the 4 recovery cd's and letting it run and it goes back to factory but still has all the OS and stuff. (that's what I'd like to accomplish)Then I just delete all the crap.

This is for my mom to use for email

Would you mind dumbing down the answer for me. Sorry!

But, once again, I really appreciate your help!

Thanks,
Justin

 

[tribalsun]

Your quite welcome, powermax does not recover anything. It writes zeros to your hard drive thus taking it back to "factory specs" so to speak. It's a safe way to insure that you get rid of any residual garbage left over from previous installs. Use your CD burning software to burn the image to disc, not make a data CD as previously stated. Once it completes its job than you can use your 98 disc and install it. Since your using the entire drive as the C Drive on this PC you won't have to worry about partitioning.