Formating?

[Alias]

You could use the utilities to format your hard drive that are available for
download at the hard drive's manunfacturer's web site. You can not only
format the disk but partition it as well and they're free.

Alias

 

[Reg]

You can boot from a Windows 98SE boot floppy [make sure that your BIOS has
A: as the first boot device] and then call FDISK to delete the existing
partition then call Windows 2000 setup from the CD and use the text based
portion of setup [the blue screen, plain text part at the beginning] to
create and format the partitions. You can also boot from the Windows 2000
CD-ROM and delete/create your partitions [skipping FDISK altogether] from
the same text based portion of setup.

This will give you a 'clean slate' in which to rebuild your box.

HTH
Reg

 

[Jim Miller]

Is there anyway to format the hard drive w/ Win 2000 Professional?
I booted up the computer and pressed F8. I then scrolled down to
Command Prompt in the safe mode. I tried to Fdisk the harddrive,
but it wouldn't allow me to do so. The message said that I would
have to do some kind of dismount. What do I need to do in order
to Fdisk my harddrive with Win 2000? I want to start off with a
clean slate. If I reinstall using the Win 2000 disk, the settings and
files still remain on the harddrive. I want to erase everything!

 

[Andy]

You can boot from the W2K CD to format and install a fresh
copy of W2K.

When prompted, select fresh install and you will be given
options to delete partitions.

Hope this helps.

-----Original Message-----
You can boot from a Windows 98SE boot floppy [make sure that your BIOS has
A: as the first boot device] and then call FDISK to delete the existing
partition then call Windows 2000 setup from the CD and use the text based
portion of setup [the blue screen, plain text part at the beginning] to
create and format the partitions. You can also boot from the Windows 2000
CD-ROM and delete/create your partitions [skipping FDISK altogether] from
the same text based portion of setup.

This will give you a 'clean slate' in which to rebuild your box.

HTH
Reg

Is there anyway to format the hard drive w/ Win 2000 Professional?
I booted up the computer and pressed F8. I then scrolled down to
Command Prompt in the safe mode. I tried to Fdisk the harddrive,
but it wouldn't allow me to do so. The message said that I would
have to do some kind of dismount. What do I need to do in order
to Fdisk my harddrive with Win 2000? I want to start off with a
clean slate. If I reinstall using the Win 2000 disk, the settings and
files still remain on the harddrive. I want to erase

everything!


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