Help.. trying to delete a partition on my hard drive.

Hi, I recently changed the boot sequence on my PC to start up from the CD-ROM. I immeaditly inserted my Windows XP Home Edition CD into the drive and everything went on like normal until I tried to delete the current partition of drive C to create a new partition.

However, I am getting this info. in return:

"Setup is unable to perform the requested operation on the selected partition. This partition contains temporary setup files that are required to complete this install."

But when I start up my computer, I have the options of choosing to do the Setup of Windows XP or start like normal.

Can anyone help me please?

 

here's how i'd do it:
http://rcc.bgsu.edu/computing/xpformat/

i think this is a solution to your problem:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/WinXP/Q_21354396.html


and here are some more links i found:
http://www.theeldergeek.com/formatting_drives_using_xp_cd.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q313348
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q255867

 

Thank you very much! I reformatted the PC just fine

 

Welcome to the reformatters club

controler

 

i'm glad it worked