HOW TO REFORMAT A PERSONAL COMPUTER?

Steps To Reformat A Personal Computer

#1 Start your pc and press key F2, F12 or delete key (Depends on your PC model).

#2 Your PC will boot from CD and windows installation will start. Press Enter at this screen.

#3 Accept License agreement by pressing F8 key.

#4 Delete the partitions.

#5 Create the partitions.

#6 Define the size of partitions.

#7 Now select your desired partition for installation of Windows XP and press enter.

#8 Choose to format the partition. Choose NTFS file system quick. 

#9 Setup will format the partition.

#10 After formatting, setup will start copying files on to the hard disk.

#11 After copying of files, setup will start installing Windows. 

#12 Select desired language and regional settings, when prompted by setup.

#13 Enter windows key.

#14 Type a name for your computer.

#15 Select time and date settings and time zone according to your country.

#16 Provide network settings for networking pc's or select typical settings and press enter.

#17 Setup will install devices and register components.

#18 After completion setup will do a cleanup of files and will restart your pc automatically. At this stage you can remove CD from drive.

To Create A Partition

What is disk partitioning?

Disk Partitioning is the creation of one or more regions on a  hard disk or other secondary storage, so that an operating system  can manage information in each region separately.

Partitioning is typically the first step of preparing a newly manufactured disk, before any files or directories have been created. 

Remember:

                     1 KB      = thousand bytes

                     1 MB     = million bytes

                     1 GB      = billion bytes

                     1 TB       = trillion bytes

Remember:

                     1 KB      = 1024 bytes

                     1 MB     = 1024 KB

                     1 GB      = 1024 MB

                     1 TB       = 1024 GB

EXAMPLE:

Original size/capacity = 40995 MB

P1   - 50 %             =      40995 x .50       =        20498    

P2   - 50 %             =      40995 x .50       =        20498 

Original size/capacity = 40995 MB

P1   - 25 GB           =      25 x 1024         =         25600

P2   - 25  %            =      40995 x .25      =         10249

P3   - The rest     
  

Original size/capacity = 38162 MB

P1   - 15 GB           =      15 x 1024          =        15360 

P2   - 30 %             =      38162 x .30       =        11449

P3   - 100%           

Original size/capacity = 38162 MB

P1   - 39 %            =      38162 x .39         =        14883

P2   - 11 GB           =      11 x 1024            =        11264

P3   - 100%                               
            

Original size/capacity = 40995 MB

P1   - 41 %             =      40995 x .41          =        16808

P2   - 10 GB           =      10 x 1024             =        10240

P3   - The rest