Reformat Dell Inspiron 1520

Hello

I want to reformat my laptop

so I read the owners manual it says to press immediately when you see a blue line with www.dell.com

When I try to do that, however there is no blue line with www.dell.com.

In any case I try hit a couple of times and it does not work. Instead, it loads windows as usual

If I try to erase the entire hard drive using fidsk or another utility. would this work?

I welcome any suggestion.

Thank you

Samsta

Dell Inspiron 1520

Internal HARD drive of 200 GB

Combo CD/RW DVD/RW drive

3 GB Ram

Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 @ 2.40 GHz CPU

Microsoft Windows XP pro service pack 3


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