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formatting an NTFS harddrive in DOS
Name: Nate Date: July 7, 2003 at 14:15:32 Pacific OS: Win2000 CPU/Ram: pIII 500
Comment:
I'm trying to format a hard drive that has been used for windows 2000 into a dos format that I can use to run an account creation computer (Just needs basic dos commands installed) but when I boot into dos it doesn't recognize that the hard drive is there. Is that because its an NTFS hard drive? If so what could I do to be able to format this hard drive into a format that DOS will allow me to copy the files I need on to it. Thanx in advance.
Name: hwood Date: July 7, 2003 at 14:20:56 Pacific
Reply:
DOS does not work on an NTFS partition. You need to format the partition FAT16 (DOS versions 6.22 and earlier) or FAT32 (DOS versions after 6.22.) To do this you need to recreate the partition.
Name: PhArAoH Date: July 7, 2003 at 16:00:20 Pacific
Reply:
Boot from a win98 bootdisk (get it from www.bootdisk.com). Use fdisk command to delete non-dos partition then create a primary dos partition - restart computer. Boot from win98 bootdisk again and use fdisk to make primary partition Active, exit fdisk by pressing ESC key. use "format c:" command to format hard disk. That's it. You have access to your disk from DOS.
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