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That worked! thanks for your help. How did you guys know i had a Dell? Eric

No, it just loads windows

Yes the drive is working fine

I am trying to reformat my desktop and have been following the instructions in the owners manual that came with it, i have inserted the operating system cd (windows XP) i then shut it down and restart i press F12 for the boot menu i select IDE CD rom device (option 5) then instead of booting from the drive it starts up normaly is there any other way to reformat my drive? All the advice i can find on the internet seems just to repeat the instructions in my manual Thanks Eric

Ok thanks for the advice

Hi, I was wondering if i used team viewer to access another computer would the virus on that computer transfer and infect the one i was operating? Thanks