Re: cannot format
From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 03/18/04
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:59:16 +0000
Brenda wrote:
>
>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.
If you have an upgrade XP CD and a regular retail (not restore) ME one,
you do not have to put the ME back in order to format and install the
XP. You do it as part of a reinstall of the system after booting the XP
CD direct. Enter Setup, and after the license agreement take New
Install. When it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete
the current partition and make a new RAW one to be formatted at the next
stage
The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one
Then when it asks where Windows is, you show it the ME CD in the drive
for a moment, then when a blue screen asks for a [number] CD, put the XP
one back.
If you *do* need to reinstall ME, do it by booting an ME (or Windows
98) startup floppy. With that use its FDISK (say Y to large disk
support) to delete the 'non-DOS' partition; make a new DOS primary one
in its place, then reboot, taking with CD support, and FORMAT C: Then
go to the ME CD and run Setup
-- Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies) Bournemouth, U.K. Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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