format and reinstall of XP with no floppy
Hi all...
my sister has a bit of a problem that i've been trying to solve over the phone. turns out our last option is to reformat the c: and start again, not a prob as the laptop is v new and has almost nothing on it worth keeping and everything has been backed up anyway.
the problem is, i have no idea how to do this as it doesnt have a floppy drive. where do i get an effective dos prompt from with to do 'c: format'. and how will the OS reinstall from the cd if i cant install cdrom drivers from a floppy? unfortunately we dont have the option of using perhaps a usb drive as a secondary boot device.
can anyone explain how to do this please?
many thanks
Jim
ps. its a tiny laptop running winXP, system/driver version 12.