Hard drive format

[Keith]

I'm trying to format a hard drive using Win 98 start-up
diskette but after it gets to 15% the formatting stops
and shows "Not ready, format terminated".
Is there another way I can format the hard drive?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

See Michael Steven's great article about formatting a hard drive:

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/format_XP.htm

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Have a look at the following article:

"Clean Install Windows XP"
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

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Will Denny
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| I'm trying to format a hard drive using Win 98 start-up
| diskette but after it gets to 15% the formatting stops
| and shows "Not ready, format terminated".
| Is there another way I can format the hard drive?