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Format
Name: Adam Bevele Date: November 16, 2001 at 15:03:51 Pacific
Comment:
Each time i put the command "format c:/s" in Dos to format windows XP the computer gives me the following Format not support on drive C: Format terminated
I tried to extract ebd.cab format.com but it didn't work.
Name: ddddummy Date: November 16, 2001 at 16:02:02 Pacific
Reply:
you use DOS 'format'? xp partitions are normally not FAT16, which dos can handle, but NTFS. if you want to kill your complete disk, i'd suggest deleting the ntfs partition with the help of 'fdisk' (from dos, or win9x boot cd), and then reinstalling xp which will automatically create the partition and fs on the empty hdd.
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Response Number 2
Name: The Doofus Date: November 16, 2001 at 18:31:25 Pacific
Reply:
format C: /fs:ntfs
or
format C: /fs:fat32
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Response Number 3
Name: The Doofus Date: November 16, 2001 at 18:34:22 Pacific
Reply:
Oh, I forgot to mention you do this by booting with the XP CD as if you were going to install, then choose repair and then Repair Console. Enter the above at the prompt. Sorry, I do it so often I don't even think about, so I left out a pretty important part. O_o
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Response Number 4
Name: Rattle$nakeGold Date: January 2, 2002 at 08:08:07 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you Doofus for 'all' the details. It helped me too.
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