How to erase a hard drive for a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop?

A friend gave me his Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop computer and I need to erase the hard drive. It has a bunch of stuff I don't use or need. Thanks.How to erase a hard drive for a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop?You can use any partitioner you want. You obviously don't already have a preference though, so my personal recommendation is gparted: http://gparted.sourceforge.netHow to erase a hard drive for a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop?pop in the windows cd and boot from it (hit the F12 key on startup and selec the CD) then begin the windows installation and you will have the option to format/repartition it