Reformatting hard disk without a floppy disk?

[Abdulah]

BlankHello,I have a Pentium4,WinXP,1.9 Ghz,and my floppy drive is screwed
up,it will not read or format floppies.
My question is:

How can I create a Start Up disk,to be able to reformat the hard disk?

Thanks and regards to all

Abdulah

 

[Rock]

BlankHello,I have a Pentium4,WinXP,1.9 Ghz,and my floppy drive is screwed
up,it will not read or format floppies.
My question is:

How can I create a Start Up disk,to be able to reformat the hard disk?

Thanks and regards to all

Abdulah

Replace the floppy drive.

 

[Carl G]

Win XP CD is bootable and has those options

 

[Michael Stevens]

BlankHello,I have a Pentium4,WinXP,1.9 Ghz,and my floppy drive is
screwed up,it will not read or format floppies.
My question is:

How can I create a Start Up disk,to be able to reformat the hard disk?

Thanks and regards to all

Abdulah

Click on the link below, or copy and paste the link into the address box
if using the web based newsgroup.
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[Ken Blake]

In

BlankHello,I have a Pentium4,WinXP,1.9 Ghz,and my floppy drive
is
screwed up,it will not read or format floppies.
My question is:

How can I create a Start Up disk,to be able to reformat the
hard disk?

Assuming that what you want is to reinstall Windows XP cleanly,
you don't need any special startup disk. Just boot from the
Windows XP CD and follow the prompts for a clean installation.

Also note that a floppy drive costs only $10-15 (US). You should
probably replace it.

 

[Abdulah]

Thanks to both of you for your prompt responses,I am working to fix my
problems now.
Regards

Abdulah

 

[Alex Nichol]

BlankHello,I have a Pentium4,WinXP,1.9 Ghz,and my floppy drive is screwed
up,it will not read or format floppies.
My question is:

How can I create a Start Up disk,to be able to reformat the hard disk?

You do it in XP by booting the CD direct, not through a floppy at all.
Then enter Setup, and after the license agreement take New Install.
When it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the
current partition and make a new RAW one to be formatted at the next
stage

The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one