Re: fdisk

Ted Gervais wrote:
Hi everyone.
I am running XP home and I am trying to format and paritition a harddrive.
I brought up a DOS cmd screen and typed in fdisk and nothing happened??
Shouldn't FDISK have come up?

If not, than how does one run FDISK with XP (home)??




You don't. FDisk is an old MS-DOS utility that is neither available or needed in WinXP. All legitimate WinXP installation CDs are bootable and have the capability of deleting, creating, and formatting partitions.

Simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm


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