I want to format the hard drive on my Dell laptop. I don't have a boot disk, or for that matter a floppy drive. When I use the Reinstall CD there are still things left from the previous installation, so I was advised to delete the partition and create a new one.
At the appropriate page, it showed one FAT partition of 47MB, the C: Drive of 30odd GB, and unpartitioned space of 8MB, so I select the C drive then D for delete, but I am then told I can't delete that partition because it contains temporary setup files without which the installation can't continue.
I don't WANT the installation to continue, I want to wipe the drive and start again, but that option is not made available to me.
Any suggestions?