Reformat hard drive

Factual Questions
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Can I have the quick and dirty lowdown on reformatting my hard drive?

I have XP Pro and a disk drive in two partitions C: (13.9G) and D: (92.8G). I’ve made all the backups to My Docs and other relevant files, and have the CDs for Office, Photoshop and other programs I want to put back on.

I want to get rid of a lot of the Sony Vaio bloatware (like proprietary CD burning programs, etc.).

Will it allow me to make new partitions on my newly formatting drive? I am finding C too small and get warning about it all time.

2

Not sure if this is what you’d call “quick and dirty”, but these links explain how to format your hard drive and perform a clean install of XP.

How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP

Perform a clean install of Windows XP