is ther any other way to fformat everything other than inserting the xp cd

If you are selling your computer or for any other reason wish to make sure your hard disk drive doesn't contain any sensitive information about you a simple disk format won't do it.

If you want to fully erase your hard disk drives using a bootable media I would recommend the free & open source software DBAN (http://dban.sourceforge.net/)
 
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