I've been having a problem with windows. I've run defragment, and it showed my hard drive was 18% fragmented, so I defragged it. When I was done, it was still 18% fragmented. I let it pass, and today I went back, and it was 19%. So I got a little mad, and bought windows XP. Now, I want to reformat my hard drive, but I can't start the computer in DOS. The boot disk works, but my drive doesn't. It has the NTFS file system, but when I try to format or switch to c:, it says Invalid drive specification. I want to format it and boot from the CD, but I can't format it from windows. Can anyone help me out here? I need to completely format the entire drive, I don't want a partition. Thanks

If you have any recent machine (meaning within 2 years), you should be able to boot off the CD. once you are booting off the cd, you should be able to reformat the drive from within the installation program.

I do, but there isn't an option to format and install.

My bootdisk is missing NTLDR.. Which won't let me boot to them.. There is no NTLDR on my hard drive. This is giving me a headache. What idiot decided to get rid of the "Restart in MSDOS mode" command??

did you try to fdisk the partition from your bootdisk? that will get rid of the 2000 but as for installing it you should be able to boot from your cd rom. i think there are some xp boot disks at www.bootdisk.com and ive heard of installation disks from microsoft at their website.