Re: When FDISK and FORMAT do not work.

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"TimWillDoIt" <TimWillDoIt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5989A69A-7C46-4BD1-A0B9-97EC9F9720D7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This should be such a simple process I'm trying to complete, but all I seem
to be able to do if bump into roadblock after roadblock. I hate coming to
the community for such a simple problem, but the solution doesn't seem to be
so simple.

I want to boot onto a floppy disk. Then I want to run the DOS FDISK and
FORMAT on the C:\> drive. On another computer, I'm running XP Home Edition.
From the XP machine, I'm creating a Boot Disk. This successfully boots the
new machine to the A:\> drive. So far so good.

Now I want to run the DOS FDISK and FORMAT. The FDISK program doesn't exist
on the hard drive nor on the XP CD-ROM. The version of FORMAT that does
exist on the XP machine is a DOS program, but when I copy it to a floppy and
run it on the new PC, I get a message that this version of FORMAT will not
run in DOS mode.

Anything I can find in the KB tells me everything I ever wanted to know
about how to run FDISK and FORMAT except where to find them when they don't
exist. Can anyone tell me how I can partion and format the hard drive of a
new PC without using the XP CD-ROM...and when FDISK and FORMAT are not
present on the XP CD?

Thanks.


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