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HI i looking for a program that can be runn from a usb or cd/dvd and it will quickly format the harddrive. please help me

so i can delete my crashed and xxxxxx up vista version so that i can then reinstall it.

EDIT by Mod: robder1, although I can imagine that you are SLIGHTLY angry please refrain from using foul language as we also have younger users here. Thx, Matt

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robder. I asked, because you are asking for a way that a nasty person could use to easily kill someone else's computer.

The problem is that when i put in the recovery or origignal cd the load but after w while the screen goes black and the i freezes. as by warrenty just ran out about 2 months ago i just desided to format the hard drive and reinstall vista but as its a laptop i cant take out the hard drive and put it into another computer to format it with windows formating tool so i was wondering if their is a good, fast and efficient tool which can be run from a usb or cd/dvd whiwh alows be format by 250gb harddrive. i really need to fix this problem so can you help now and no im not destroying enyone elses computer.

so can i please get a software so i can format the harddrive (has to be run from dvd or usb.)

Well, if you are having battery drops, not much will help. Get that fixed first.

From the Vista Install CD you can do a FORMAT during install or from the command prompt. Have you tried that? Shift-F10 should get you to the COMMAND PROMPT and you can run FORMAT C:. More DETAILS here.

Starting the install, you can also do it, if you can't, check THIS LINK from MS for things to try.

If you REALLY need a program, try THIS ONE.