want to completely wipe my computer.

[yamaha605]

i want to completely wipe my computer clean. i tryed reinstalling. but i still have 200 gig worth of stuff on my hard drive. how do i wipe my hard drive completely then reinstall windows and have a fresh computer

 

[bassfisher6522]

Change the boot order in BIOS to CD/DVD, load windows 7 dvd, reboot and follow on screen prompts, when you get to the screen to select a drive to load OS, click format at bottom right. This will erase the HDD and you can install the OS on an empty drive.

And this excellent tutorial....

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1649-clean-install-windows-7-a.html

 

[wanchoo]

Otherwise boot using a Partition Manager Boot Disk and then first delete and then in the unallocated space produced due to the deletion recreate the partition. Voilà.

 

[yamaha605]

thanks bassfisher i just done what you said and now its showing 452 of 465gig free.

 

[bassfisher6522]

Glad to here you got it...

Remember to change your boot order back to HDD first in the BIOS.