I accidently formatted or deleted my harddrive w a fix it utilities disc that doent explain what to do or how to fix or start over by.....so im stuck on stop! I have n hp laptop pavilion, running vista home edition,32 bit. 1st i had the blue screen of death, an i couldnt do system restore cause i didnt know the password, so i found n old windows vista home basic recovery disc from n old everex pc i had n it worked, but once in i couldnt get online, driver was missing (wifi) so i bought n external belkin wifi usb adapter, now able to get online, i found that i was missing different drivers that i had but didnt anymore, idk they could not b found. I then tried windows n microsoft sites to install drivers but i guess cause the OS system disc was so outdated i couldnt get on sites or upgrade to get on them, then i kinda gave up, n started checking out what was on some sd cards n sticks i had. Well 1 day i started my laptop w this stick that i left in a usb port n as long as i kept it in i had my internal wifi n chrome back? I believe the stick had someone elses Dell OS system on it, i think 7? Well it didnt take but a day or 2 n idk if it was all the porn this person had on this stick but my laptop was taken over by virus after virus, thats when i got this fix it utility disc n wiped out my harddrive. So now how do i start over from scratch? I bought n external harddrive thinkin i could install n os on it ...idk??? ive tried running an xp os disc on it n it tells me 1 time bootmgr missing, another time dmio missing, n each time i run the disc it says a different one. Now w the utilities disc i can reformat or partition the harddrive so i can install a os, but it doesnt tell u how to do it, so can some one help me w the steps that i need to do this n the answers to the info this disc is asking to insert...someone pleassssse help me, thank u forever in debt