[BurningReaper88]

Hello, I have a massive problem with trying to format my old computer.

I have installed 2 different operating systems (xp and vista) on my hard drive on seperate partitions without flagging 1 of them to boot (aka it doesnt boot at all.) I want to completely format the hole thing and just put xp on the 1 hard drive with no partitions.

My problem is that my computers CD drive has broken and it does not have a floppy drive, I want to know if theres any way i can boot a program from a USB flash drive to completely format both partitions so i can install xp (I already know how to boot xp off a USB flash drive.)

Any feedback would be great.

Thankyou.

[JustinPS]

The only program I know of that will let you reformat and reallocate partitions is Partition Manager from Paragon Software. I'm sure there are others, but that one is quite popular.

However, you'd need to be able to actually install the program in order for it to work, aka: you couldn't just boot it off the USB drive. If you can boot into Windows, then you can use Partition Manager (or similar software) to delete one of the partitions and merge it with the other one.

[BurningReaper88]

Thanks, i actually asked my friend about it and came up with a good conclussion.
I took the hard drive out, stuck it in another computere, just formatted the hole thing than installed xp. =D