How the hell do you reformat HD with XP Pro on??
23 March 2002, 11:28 AM
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Will you be reinstalling XP ?
a) Easy Way - set the BIOS to boot your WinXP CD and it'll partition and format your hard disk as part of the setup of XP
b) If you don't intend to put XP on, as Richie says, just boot a win98 bootdisk which will have FDISK to partition and FORMAT to format.
a) Easy Way - set the BIOS to boot your WinXP CD and it'll partition and format your hard disk as part of the setup of XP
b) If you don't intend to put XP on, as Richie says, just boot a win98 bootdisk which will have FDISK to partition and FORMAT to format.
25 March 2002, 01:24 AM
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Get a boot disk from here... If you do not have a bootdisk.
http://www.bootdisk.com/original.htm
Place this tool on it
http://ftp.inspan.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/edpart.zip
Edpart will blow away any partition without asking you a single question. It assumes you know what you are doing.
Be Carefull
PS: Virus check this stuff before use.
http://www.bootdisk.com/original.htm
Place this tool on it
http://ftp.inspan.net/pub/mirrors/simtelnet/msdos/diskutil/edpart.zip
Edpart will blow away any partition without asking you a single question. It assumes you know what you are doing.
Be Carefull
PS: Virus check this stuff before use.
26 March 2002, 04:12 AM
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