Reinstall windows xp

[wickedstyle]

I want to reinstall my windows xp home edition so I did it and went to the main screen so I check my hard drive space and I still have the same hard drive space as I did before the reinstall?? How do I delete this partition. I tried at command prompt format C: and then it doesnt let me, so then I tried to delete partition at the windows xp setup and it doesnt let me?? what can I do??

[Nuclear Krusader]

How many partitions do you have?

If you boot from the XP CD you should be able to erase and create partitions no problem.

[wickedstyle]

1 partition and i boot from the xp cd and doesnt let me

[Nuclear Krusader]

What options are you getting in the screen where it asks to select a partition to install Windows to?

How big is your HD? What is exactly the reason you wanna repartition it?

[wickedstyle]

I want to reinstall my windows xp I get to the Welcome to setup and says set up windows press enter then repair windows xp and then quit setup without installing windows xp press F3 so I press enter then I press delete partition and doesnt let me.

[wickedstyle]

When I press delete partition it says setup is unable to perform the requested operation on the selected partition. This partition contains temporary setup files that are required to complete installation.

[glc]

http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm

Stick it on a bootdisk.

[wickedstyle]

Is there any other way I can do this??

[wickedstyle]

Nevermind guys thanks alot for the help I got it. I had to put my cd-rom on 1st boot device did it and know it formatted full way. thanks