"Kernix" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

I was given a eMachines T-1120 that had a ton of spyware, corrupted
files, yada, yada, yada. I want to wipe the drive, install a
partition for DOS and reinstall XP on a clean drive.


First off XP does not use the DOS system - it uses something called
NFTS.

You need to wipe and reload the OS - you can get a copy of the
necessary files from bootdisk.com that will fire up the floppy drive
and let you go thru thru the steps of reformatting - you just need to
do some reading on NFTS.

I haven't done this in a while, but doesn't a full version of the XP CD
offer the option of erasing the entire HD, in much the same way as if you'd
done it via the format command?