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From: Phil (comingsoon_at_philcosoft.com)
Date: 08/26/04


Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:08:22 -0400

Boot to a win98 floppy boot disk, run fdisk, delete all partitons including
non-dos partitons, create a new partiton, reboot to floppy, format, install
SBS.

"phil" <phil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02BEA4E7-17DF-4C80-B2A6-FDD7986F61EF@microsoft.com
> got a new server plugged it in and started to load sbs, all went well
> til i booted into the start up and noticed windows 98 was already on
> the server! So thought i would format and start again, here in lies
> the problem, how do you get a command prompt without a boot disk for
> sbs. I have got the command prompt using an xp boot disk but the
> format C: doesnt work. Anyone remember how to format the sbs so i can
> start over help appreciated.



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