Need computer help..

[Telvis]

I am giving my daughter my old laptop. I want to reformat the hard drive to completely clear the computer of everything I have on it. I can't figure out how to do it with Windows XP. Older versions of windows were easy to reformat. Am I missing something here? I want to give this to her tis evening. I would appreciate any help you guys might be able to offer.

[73dodge]

If you can boot from CD just put your Windows XP cd in the drive and boot it to CD and then you can install XP on the hard drive. It will give you the option to wipe the hard drive and reformat with NTFS and reinstall XP.

If it does not boot to CD look in the bios and see if it has a setting to boot from cd first instead of the HD and change it so it does boot from CD

Just make sure you have a valid key code from Mickeysoft or you won't be able to activate it.

But there are ways around that if you need it.