Dell Dimension 3100 PC Reformatting

[Snickers]

Good morning,

I want to reformat my sister's PC, but have come across something I have never seen before! Normally, when I boot from the Windows XP Pro CD, there is only 1 partition I need to delete (I think it is NTSF). However, on my sister's computer, there are 3 partitions, 2 of which are FAT type. Should I delete all 3? Should I keep the 2 FAT ones because I believe this is what DELL has put there?

Thanks!

[patio]

I'd leave them alone...and yse they are probably recovery partitions...

[JJ 3000]

Do you have a flash drive plugged into the computer?

How big are the two FAT partitions?

[Snickers]

So, I went ahead and did my reformat without touching the two FAT partitions. After that was finished, I went on the DELL website from another computer to get the drivers needed (I lost the CD that came with the computer). However, I still have errors saying no graphic card has been detected  and I can't access the Internet either!

[Broni]

Any errors in Device Manager?
What was the original reason for reinstall?

[Snickers]

There doesn't seem to be any errors with Device Manager, it's probably just a driver thing because the graphics were working great before I reformated. Oh, and to answer your question, it had not been done since we got the computer, so it was full of crap and veeerrryyy slow.

[Broni]

Did you try to reinstall video, and ethernet driver?