i'm wanting to reformat my hard drive, because a lot of my programs are not working and i want to start from scratch. so i went to the command prompt and entered "c:\>" enter then "format"  it tells me the required parameter is missing, what do i do now?

 

thanks for any help

 

Dimension 4400

Processor Intel(R)

Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz

Processor Speed1.95 GHz

Memory (RAM)256 MB

Operating SystemMicrosoft Windows XP Home Edition

Operating System Version5.1.2600