Your were a super help.  This was not an easy machine to reformat.  I am still trying to find everything I need. The application CD will not work.  I am getting "the disk structure is corrupted and unreadable" message. When I place the disc in another machine I can see the files on it.  I went to the Drivers Download of DEll Support section thinking I could find the Cyberlink,Power DVD and Roxio Programs but these were not listed.  
I am trying to do a clean format of a Dell Precison M65 Laptop.  The format seems to be stuck at downloading files. I am getting a message that a required CD/DVD device driver is missing.  I am not sure what to do here,. I have taken the OS disc out and put in the Drivers and Utility Disc but it says no drivers were found.  I am not sure how to proceed. The OS system is Windows Vista 32 bit.   I now get the error " Grub Loading Stage 1.5  GRUB loading please wait Error 22."  I guess this computer also had another OS on it which I did not realize.   I messed up somewhere when I deleted partitions to make one partition on this laptop. I can no longer boot to the OS system disc that came with the computer. Does it sound like I destroyed the MBR? Can someone provide some advice or guidance here or did I ruin this laptop?     Also there is no manual listed for this laptop. 
Trying to reformat