Hi I am running XP pro and trying to reformat.I am not a pro but have a good understanding.My problem is that my mouse often freezes and restart is required (microsoft intellipoint wireless mouse and keyboard)This also hapens with wired mouse and keyboard.When trying to reformat I receive a message"setup did not find any hard disk drives installed on PC.Make sure hard disk drives are turned on and setup is correct".Wht am I doing wrong HEELLPP

Is the hard drive seen by the BIOS?

Hi jephree yes the hard drive is seen in the Bios setup

http://www.ehow.com/how_6026_format-hard-drive.html

Go to the above.

hi Fingees i have been to the site and tried reformating via "my computer" but the delete partition is not highlited so therefore although doing it step by step I cannot delete the partition .Is there something i am not doing to allow me to delete????

It's a while since I did it myself, as I now use Vista.

I take it you are booting from the XP cd, and formating from that.

I can't honestly remember at the moment how to get an unformatted drive recognised, but I know it happend to me, and I've forgotten the cure,

I know it entailed running fdisk from a floppy I believe it was from windows 98 second edition.

sorry i'm not much help at the moment,

Thanx for the help Fingees,yes I am trying to format from XP cd.If you can thionk of anything please let me know as my problem with my mouse freezing is getting worse

GParted can partition your drive to NTFS.

You need to create the ISO boot disk.

From the download burn the disk image of the ISO.

If you do not have such software here is a free ISO burner:

http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm

Be reminded that formatting will wipe that drive/partition so you will use your current functionality.

I just mention this as I am not sure formating will help here.

It is strange that the BIOS sees and can work with this drive but the XP CD cannot.