Format Question

[george]

Hi All,
I would like to format my win2k IBM 80gig hard drive, but I can't find my
windows
disk. I downloaded a boot disk (floopy), so pc boots up and then runs dos.
Then I try and run command format c: but with no success, it says invalid
format.com. If I run Fdisk, it can only delete the partition, without
actually formatting existing one - what do I do?
Cheers

 

[Peter]

Hi All,

I would like to format my win2k IBM 80gig hard drive, but I can't find my
windows
disk. I downloaded a boot disk (floopy), so pc boots up and then runs dos.
Then I try and run command format c: but with no success, it says invalid
format.com. If I run Fdisk, it can only delete the partition, without
actually formatting existing one - what do I do?
Cheers

Boot off your Win2K CD.

 

[Eric Gisin]

You use Disk Manager - My Computer - Manage.

 

[Plato]

I would like to format my win2k IBM 80gig hard drive, but I can't find my
windows
disk. I downloaded a boot disk (floopy), so pc boots up and then runs dos.
Then I try and run command format c: but with no success, it says invalid
format.com. If I run Fdisk, it can only delete the partition, without
actually formatting existing one - what do I do?

Well, since you want to toss the data anyway, why not toss the partition
using fdisk, then recreate it, then format.