Flattening hard drive?

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How do I flatten hardrive with winxp? Use to be able to do it easily enought with Win98 - uising boot disk and F Disk porcess. So, what is there to tdo with XP if I want to start clean

Thanks much, JO

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The word you want is format, not flattening.

Boot the XP CD and do an install, you will asked questions,
choose to do a partition, format and clean install.

The CD will boot if you set the BIOS to have the CD as 1st
boot device. When it boots it will show you a message, if
you don't acknowledge that within a few seconds it will go
ahead and finish booting from the hard drive,


| How do I flatten hardrive with winxp? Use to be able to
do it easily enought with Win98 - uising boot disk and F
Disk porcess. So, what is there to tdo with XP if I want to
start clean?
|
| Thanks much, JOe
|
| (e-mail address removed)
 
You mean Format, noy flattening.

You can do it exactly the same way you did in win98. Just boot to a win98
floppy boot disk and use fdisk.
or
Boot to the xp cd, it has all the tools to delete and create partitions,
format, and install xp.
 
: How do I flatten hardrive with winxp? Use to be able to do it
easily enought with Win98 - uising boot disk and F Disk porcess. So,
what is there to tdo with XP if I want to start clean?


Go to the HDD manufacturer to get their diagnostic utility. It
will make a bootable floppy to write zero's to the disk which
will be the same as it was shipped new.
 
Joe said:
How do I flatten hardrive with winxp? Use to be able to do it easily enought with Win98 - uising boot disk and F Disk porcess. So, what is there to tdo with XP if I want to start clean?

Thanks much, JOe

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Click to expand...

Put in under the right rear tire of your car after you put the
XP CD on top! :-)
 
Ian said:
Put in under the right rear tire of your car after you put the
XP CD on top! :-)
Click to expand...

I am not sure this would really do the job of flattening a hard drive. It
would probably take a steamroller, or a least a fully loaded 18 wheeler. I
never had success flattening a hard drive using fdisk from a Win 98 boot
disk either, and forget about a clean install of XP after a successful
flattening. ;~^)

For formatting options see the link below

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if using the web based newsgroup.
Format XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/format_XP.htm
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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