Re: hard drive?????
From: Ken Blake, MVP (kblake_at_this.is.an.invalid.domain)
Date: 03/23/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 12:21:58 -0700
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Gotthic <gvc@mvps.org> typed:
> The easiest way to format the System drive is to Download
> the Windows 98 bootdisk and copy it to a floppy disk,
> Place the floppy in your harddrive, reboot your computer
> and use the FDISK utility to format the partition
> Hope this helps
This will work *only* if the drive is not NTFS.
Assuming that noodle wants to reinstall Windows XP after
formatting, what you suggest is not necessary. All he needs to do
is just boot from the Windows XP CD and follow the prompts for a
clean installation. It will do the reformat for him.
You can find detailed instructions here:
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
-- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup >>-----Original Message----- >>how do you format a hard drive if windows wont do it and > you dont it is an oem drive samsong 60G drive?? >>thanks in advance >>.
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