Re: Reformatting hard drive

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To wipe the drive, some ways include; boot a win98 startup disk, run fdisk
and delete all partition information found (as long as NTFS is primary). Or
boot the Windows XP CD-Rom and when you get to the point, delete the
existing NTFS and or other partitions found, then abort the install. Or use
a utility named delpart.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe

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"efg20" wrote:
| How can I remove windows 2000 prof. and reformat the hard drive without
| installing an o/s?
|
| I've removed Windows 2000, but everytime I choose to format the partition
it
| loads Windows again and I don't know how to get to DOS after I've removed
| Windows.


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