Re: formatting hard drive

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From: Tony Talmage (fakeaddress_at_nodomain.com)
Date: 05/11/04


Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 08:22:16 -0500

Set your BIOS to boot from the XP CD -- this will give you
formatting/partitioning options that will allow you to clear the drive and
install anew.

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Tony Talmage
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"thomas" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:b4dd01c43759$62621a70$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> This may be basic to some, but I used to be able to
> easily get to a dos prompt and format my hard drive in
> previous windows versions.  How do I get to the dos
> prompt in XP at startup?