Re: Formatting HD

Boot with a Windows 98 or Me floppy. At the command prompt type the
following and press the Enter Key

FDISK

use FDISK to remove any partitions found. They might be non-Dos partitions
which FDISK interprets an NTFS formatted partition as being. Once all
partitions are remove used the FDISK option to create a Primary partition.
Reboot and then use the same Windows 98 or Me floppy to format the drive. If
you need detailed instructions on using FDISK see this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q255867/

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Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User]


"CinciDave" <CinciDave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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To all thanks,
I know that a 4.3GB HD is small and slow (300MH) by todays st'ds. The PC
is
about 7 years old and I have replaced it very recently. I promised to
donate
it to a local school when I got it running again. It came with this HD and
Win 98 and I uggraded it to ME. This dinosour ran fine at that time.

If I can just load ME I would be satisfied at this point, but the HD must
be
reformatted first and it just won't stop loading XP. I do have the CD as
first in the BIOS boot order, but that doesn't seem to help at this point.
Any more cogent suggestions?
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CinciDave

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"Richard Urban" wrote:

Malke told you on Sept. 29 that a 4.3 gig hard drive is way too small.
How
old is your computer. How about giving the rest of the specs on this
apparent dinosaur?

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"CinciDave" <CinciDave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have been unable to finish loading XP Pro on a Dell Dimension XPS300
PC
with 512 MB Ram and a 4.3GB SCSI HD. The setup always stops at the same
place. It was my thought that perhaps I could load ME first and then
try
the
upgrade. During the XP procedure Shift-F10 yields the command prompt,
but
It
will not allow me to format the HD. Upon restarting the PC I don't see
the
message to format with either the XP or the ME disks. The set up just
begins
with Windows and attempts to ccontinue the load procedure with the same
end
result as before. How does one bypass this and reformat prior to
loading
ME. .....???????????????
Thanks..........CinciDave





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