How Do I Reformat The Hard Drive?

Hello,
I just bought aToshiba Satellite P505-S8940 laptop. It did not come with a recovery disk. I had to use their Recovery Disc Creator to make copies of 2 system recovery disks and 2 application disks. I would like to know how do I reformat the hard drive? Thanks!

Satellite P505-S8940
See the section Recovering the Internal Storage Drive, which begins on p. 62 of the User's Guide.
Satellite P500 Series User's Guide
-Jerry

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