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Reformat HD
Name: Hardtimes Date: November 10, 2005 at 08:48:25 Pacific OS: Win 98 FE CPU/Ram: Pentium
Comment:
I am able to boot into safe mode and need to reformat a hard drive. The floppy drive is not recognized on boot for some reason either. Please help.
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: November 10, 2005 at 09:23:33 Pacific
Reply:
If you're trying to format the drive running windows, forget it.
If it's another drive, just right click it and choose format.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 3
Name: Hardtimes Date: November 10, 2005 at 09:41:07 Pacific
Reply:
I am able to use safe mode, and Windows is on the C: drive
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Response Number 4
Name: ham30 Date: November 10, 2005 at 09:41:33 Pacific
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Just to make sure. Format wipes the drive clean and you lose everything. Is that what you want to do? Or do you want to reinstall windows? To boot from the floppy, make sure it's set as the first boot device. To enter the bios 'setup' routine, you need to watch the monitor carefully and type the correct key(s) when booting up.
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Response Number 5
Name: ham30 Date: November 10, 2005 at 09:43:22 Pacific
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If you are able to boot in safe mode, try the following: boot to dos standalone and type: scanreg /restore
Restore to a date before the problem.
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Response Number 6
Name: Hardtimes Date: November 10, 2005 at 09:47:04 Pacific
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Yes, I would like to format. Data is all backed up. I just can't boot from the floppy. The computer is not seeing it any longer.
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Response Number 7
Name: Hardtimes Date: November 10, 2005 at 09:53:11 Pacific
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When I try to boot to DOS, option 5, I get the Microsoft Plug and Play message and so on and then the cursor just blinks. It does not give me a prompt of any kind.
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Response Number 8
Name: ham30 Date: November 10, 2005 at 11:13:35 Pacific
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Did you make sure that the floppy drive is set first in the bios boot sequence? Reference response #4.
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Response Number 9
Name: Hardtimes Date: November 10, 2005 at 13:07:12 Pacific
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Got it done, with your help. Thanks so much.
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Response Number 10
Name: ham30 Date: November 10, 2005 at 13:54:31 Pacific
Reply:
Good work!
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Response Number 11
Name: lukeles Date: November 13, 2005 at 19:20:10 Pacific
Reply:
you can use windows 2000 or xp cd to restart your computer and deleted, create or format your partition.
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Response Number 12
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: November 14, 2005 at 01:59:00 Pacific
Reply:
Yeah, there's a hard way to do an easy thing.
A bit like using a D8 Caterpillar to plant marigols.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
M2
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Response Number 13
Name: sprintmedia Date: November 27, 2005 at 15:24:28 Pacific
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im using a toshiba laptop, and it wont do anything so i need to clear the hardrive and reload everything, i can load safe mode with command prompt but how do i delete xp or my drive to then reinstall everything?
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Response Number 14
Name: Mechanix2Go Date: November 27, 2005 at 22:34:32 Pacific
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It's not obvious what that has to do with this.
If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.
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