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Format c:\
Name: Davin Atkins Date: October 28, 2001 at 10:19:52 Pacific
Comment:
I tried to upgrade an existing Win ME to Win 2k. When I made the upgrade I chose for the installer to change my drive to NTFS. Surprise, surprise now none of my programs that were previously installed will work. On top of that I now cannot uninstall any of my old programs. (I don't know what I was thinking I should've thought about this happening, maybe I was really drunk)
So now I've decided to just say "screw it" and format the whole blasted hard drive and start from scratch. However I have no idea how to format an NTFS drive, which is made more difficult by the fact that it's obviously my boot drive.
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Summary: I dont know exactly what u wanna ask. But from the title, i assume u wanna ask hoe to format. Just boot with the bootdisk and at a:\ type 'format c:' without quote so it would be a:\format c: ...
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