re- formatting a drive in xp

From: Jake (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:04:51 +0100

Does anyone know how to reformat a hard drive through windows xp? On my old
98se machine if I wanted to reformat a drive I simply restarted in dos and
typed for example -- "format c:". But as we all know you cant restart in
Dos in Xp because it doesnt run on top of Dos. I know that when I install
Xp it formats the drive for me but I was wondering if there was anyway I
could do it my self using the format command in a sort of dos environment.

Thanks

Jake

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