Andrew said:
I have a question, I have a 80gb hard drive, I run
windows XP, and I also run on NTSF. Simple Question, how
do I reformat my drive c?????
Please Help
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You can format a non-system hard drive from Computer Management> Disk
Management. If you want to format a system disk using NTFS, you can boot
from the XP CD, load recovery console and format from diskpart or boot with
a Win 98/Me boot disk with fdisk and format on the floppy disk and from
fdisk delete the non-dos partition. You then create a new dos partition
reboot and format the partition, or leave the partition empty and boot from
the XP CD to create and format the empty space during the XP setup. With
more information about your reason to format, more detailed help could be
given.
Don't have a Win 98/Me boot disk?
http://www.bootdisk.com
Recovery console diskpart commands.
Diskpart
Creates and deletes partitions on a hard drive. The diskpart command is only
available when you are using the Recovery Console.
diskpart [/add | /delete] [device_name | drive_name | partition_name] [size]
Parameters
none
Used without parameters, the diskpart command starts the Windows
character-mode version of diskpart.
/add
Creates a new partition.
/delete
Deletes an existing partition.
device_name
The device on which you want to create or delete a partition. The name can
be obtained from the output of the map command. An example of a device name
is:
\Device\HardDisk0
drive_name
The partition you want to delete, by drive letter. Used only with /delete.
An example of a drive name is:
D:
partition_name
The partition you want to delete, by partition name. Can be used in place of
the drive_name. Used only with /delete. An example of a partition name is:
\Device\HardDisk0\Partition1
size
The size, in megabytes (MB), of the partition you want to create. Used only
with /add.
Examples
The following examples delete a partition:
diskpart /delete \Device\HardDisk0\Partition3
diskpart /delete F:
The following example adds a 20 MB partition to your hard drive:
diskpart /add \Device\HardDisk0 20
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