# How do I reformat my hard drive? (windows XP, NTFS Harddrive)

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**Created:** [May 29, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reformat-my-hard-drive-windows-xp-ntfs-harddrive/149433 "2005-05-29T04:07:12Z")
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### Author: ![psychtaygar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@psychtaygar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/psychtaygar)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-reformat-my-hard-drive-windows-xp-ntfs-harddrive/149433/1 "2005-05-29T04:07:12Z")

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I need to reformat my harddrive… it has been shutting down crashing freezing etc… I have backed up the data I want… so what do I do next?

OS: Windows XP

HD: NTFS

thx…

Edit: I now have the professional SUSE Linux software and Im planning on installing it… but I want to have windows XP on the copmputer also… does anyone know how to install two operating systems on one harddrive? or two?

I have one Internal 40 GB HD and one external 80 GB HD… thx

~psych