how to format a hard drive with xp home on it?

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phil

Hi and a happy Christmas too all.
I know one can format a floppy to make a dos boot disk.
But when I boot to this floppy I cannot get any other
prompt except a:
Floppy does not have fdisk or format command on it.
Is there a way of formatting a hard drive with corrupt
files that reinsallation of windows xp cannot fix?
I know you can download the file that takes 6 floppies
from MS web site to start win xp from floppy.
Is this the only way?

Thanks in advance

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phil said:
Is there a way of formatting a hard drive with corrupt
files that reinsallation of windows xp cannot fix?
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Just boot from the Windows XP CD and follow the prompts for a
clean installation. It will do the reformat for you.
 

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