reformatting my hardrive

[Guest]

Can someone tell me how to reformat my C: drive or
hardrive I can't remember how to do it thanks

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

The Windows XP CD is bootable and contains all the tools necessary
to partition and format your drive. Follow this procedure and allow
Windows XP to partition and format your drive:

1. It would be best to physically disconnect all your peripheral hardware
devices, except for you mouse and keyboard, before installing XP.

2. Open your BIOS and set your CD Drive as the first bootable device.

===> Accessing Motherboard BIOS
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3. Insert your Windows XP CD in the CD Drive and reboot your computer.
4. You'll see a message to boot to the CD....follow the instructions.
5. The setup menu will appear and you should elect to delete the existing
Windows partitions, then create a new partition, then format the primary
partition (preferably NTFS) and proceed to install Windows XP.

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

[Courtesy of Michael Stevens, MS-MVP]

7. After Windows XP is installed, visit the Windows Update website
and download the available "Critical Updates".

8. After installing the critical updates, be sure and visit the support website
of the manufacturer of the computer to download and install any
available Windows XP compatible drivers, such as video adapter
and audio drivers.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Boot the WinXP CD, you can format as part of a new installation.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Pete]

-----Original Message-----
Can someone tell me how to reformat my C: drive or
hardrive I can't remember how to do it thanks
.

There are a couple of ways you can do this. You can
either use a Windows 98 PC to create a startup disk and
copy to this disk the FDISK utility and the FORMAT
utility. Then you can boot off this disk, run FDISK to
delete and re-create the partitions you want, then use
FORMAT to formtat the drive. Alternatively, you can boot
off the Windows XP CD and do a fresh install and during
this it wil prompt you to create/delete/format partitions
as you see fit.

 

[Michael Stevens]

Can someone tell me how to reformat my C: drive or
hardrive I can't remember how to do it thanks

Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address box.
Should I format?
http://michaelstevenstech.com
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[Alex Nichol]

Can someone tell me how to reformat my C: drive or
hardrive I can't remember how to do it thanks

You do it as part of a reinstall of the system after booting the XP CD
direct. 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