cannot format

From: Brenda (gbstj_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 22:46:00 -0500

Hi,

I'm trying to format my c drive and I can't. while using my boot disk, I
command format c: and the reply is "cannot format network drive".

I've looked all night at different site and newsgroups.

I think it is because instead of FAT mine is NTFS. It was my husband friend
who reinstalled our Windows XP, but I wasn't there. I found this by our
disk manager.

It will see, A: and D:, but it can't see C:

I want to reinstall my Windows Me, because I bought an upgrade to windows XP
because my orginal Windows XP is scratched and I can't use it now, but I
want to upgrade.

Any suggestions please.

Also, I have the windows me, but it came with my previous computer installed
free, am I going to need the product key, because I certainly don't have it
anymore, that was years ago. Oh dear....I may have bought the upgrade for
nothing :-((

please help by replying to gbstj@sympatico.ca

Thank you.

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