format a hard drive from Me to Xp.

I see you have answers from Mike but I'll tell you my experience.
My machine came with XP pre-installed but due to a few problems I decided
to put my own retail copy of XP on, it also had the D partition with the
factory recovery image. My thinking was that after booting from the XP CD,
formatting and clean installing would wipe out that partition also, it
didn't but as it only takes up a small amount of space on an 80 GB drive I
left things as they were and don't have any problems.
Joan

Explorer wrote:
Sorry i got the boot disk point, my other point was the machine i use
at the moment has a partioned hard drive C and D how do i get rid of
the partition D? if i format c will it do both? (D which has a system
restore to enable the original factory settings) or if format c and
use the xp disc will it overwrite the D partion?