NTFS.SYS blue screen of DEATH?

If you plan to format your hard drive, I suggest you get the Windows Xp CD and boot it from the CD. In order to boot it up, you need to go the BIOS and set your CD-ROM as the first priority and then put the CD into your computer and before the blue screen appears, it should say "press any key to boot from cd." If that doesn't show up then that would mean that your windows xp disk isn't bootable and would need to get a newer windows xp disk that is newer which then that would be able to be bootable. If you have any more questions, please IM me or email me. Thanks xD