How do I format a harddrive with Win 2000 OS?

[Tim]

My roomate's PC has been hit currupted. I wanted to format
his C: (hard drive) through windows and through the
command prompt, without success.

How can I proceed to format his harddrive and then
reinstall W2000?

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
My roomate's PC has been hit currupted. I wanted to format
his C: (hard drive) through windows and through the
command prompt, without success.

How can I proceed to format his harddrive and then
reinstall W2000?

.

the short answer is that you can't format the root drive
in windows while windows is running, you need either to
get into dos, with the use of a boot disk, but you should
be able to just boot from the CD and the options will
include format

 

[Sean Dwyer [MSFT]]

Hi Tim:

You should simply be able to boot the computer off of the CD and two or
three screens into the setup, you will have the option to format the drive.

--
Sean Dwyer, MCSE
Platform Server Setup Group

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