Reformat and clean install of XP

My Cd drive on my laptop does not work and I want to reformat my hard drive and do a clean install of XP.  Can anyone help?

If it is not too expensive, you can replace the CD drive (assuming that the disk is in fact bad... so once again, it can only be a connection problem).

What is the brand, model and model number of your laptop? It is possible that the hard disk contains a hidden restore partition. If so, you won't even work CD player.

Finally, why do you feel you must perform a clean installation? Installs own is rarely necessary!

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