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!I'd leave them alone...and yse they are probably recovery partitions...Do you have a flash drive PLUGGED into the computer?

How big are the two FAT partitions?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!Any errors in Device Manager?
What was the original reason for reinstall?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.Did you try to reinstall video, and ethernet driver?