Te2100 - want to format that partition regardless of XP

I have a laptop Toshiba Te2100, running Windows XP Professional.
It has a 40 GB hard drive that is partitioned into a C drive and a D drive. Drive C is about 8 GB and XP is installed on this partition.

A few weeks ago, I tried to start the computer and he kept getting as much as the login screen and restarting over and over again.
It wouldn't start even in safe mode, but got a distant as a dll file that I finally discovered was something to do with the graphics driver.

I had no success trying to backdate the pilot so decided to reinstall XP using the installation disc. I thought it was format the C drive and installation on a partition clean but after it started and I was replacing all the software I had originally on the disc, it starts to come up with its imperfections. The disk check, I found it was full and that XP, instead of setting shape and installation on partition clean, had not won on a completely different and left windows folder all my original content on the partition.

Now I want to format this partition regardless of XP if possible to make sure that everything is clear and let the other D partition intact.

Any suggestions on how I can do this successfully?
I have a program called Killdisk which lies on a floppy disk, but the laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, or I would use that. I have also an external hard drive that I think has a hard drive of the laptop and I was wondering if I could remove the hard drive and put it in that format the partition with my desktop computer.

I don't want to lose all the information on the partition of the D drive in the laptop if possible.
Any constructive suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Allan

Maybe you have to connect your HARD drive to another computer, as external and copy any important data. Then, you can give to your laptop and reinstall Windows XP Home edition. Then you have the option to remove all the existing partition, create new and install WXP.

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