Need help with laptop

Okay any help would be appreciated.



I have a laptop that won't bootup, it only has a cd-rom drive no floppy. I don't have any manufacturer cd's for the laptop. It has Windows NT 4.0 workstation on it.



I booted off of a boot cd and when I go to delete the partitions so I can flatten the hard drive out so I can install XP it say I can't delete partitions in standard mode. It won't let me format c: either...



Can anyone help me with wiping this hard drive clean some other way. I am able to boot off of a cd. Are there any other ways to wipe it clean through dos liek any other programs I can use?





Thanks in advance

so you've tried installing XP and the format before install on the XP cd doesn't work?

well the XP I have is upgrade only, so I plan on installing windows 98 then upgrading but I need to wipe the hard drive first



and the computer won't even boot up. I have a boot cd I downloaded of the net that can get me to DOS mode but once I get there and try to delete the partitions it tells me I can't delete partitions in standard mode and won't even let me format c:

you know anyone with a full version XP who would let you use it for a format? It makes you format before installing the OS so that's the way most people format beforehand. And XP doesn't use DOS per se anymore, the boot disk will boot without anything else on the computer so I don't know if that's causing problems or not for you

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

try that, download, burn, boot and enjoy the tools

thanks for the link