Re-formating a hard drive HELP!

Ok, i have a hard drive and it had windowxs xp pro on it, i got a virus that only lets me run the computer for about 3 seconds…..tells me some required dlls are not found, then says it failed to initialize, then reboots. How would i re-format my hard drive with only 3 seconds? not enough time to read a disk drive….please help me

have you tried to start in safe mode?

Boot from a disk… AKA get a live CD of Linux or something and use it to reformat… Won't need any DLLs from windows… And you don't need to start windows to use it

thanx for the feedback

the keyboard doesnt work till the hard drive is full booted

were would i get a live cd?

google the word knoppix you may find a german and an english site…you want the english one

EDIT: here it is http://www.knoppix.org/

Ok, thanx man

your keyboard doesn't work until you boot? do you have a usb keyboard or something?

If you have a usb keyboard, either go into your bios and enable usb support on boot (catch-22 I know) or get yourself a usb/ps2 adapter so that you may have access to keystrokes before the operating system initalizes.