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reformat HP
Name: doodles100 Date: May 21, 2005 at 11:14:47 Pacific OS: w98 SE CPU/Ram: Pent II 192mb
Comment:
I want to reformat the HD of a HP 4540, but have no recovery or startup disks. I also have a new OS to put on it when it is clean, but I have no idea how to clean it off without running from a startup disk or having an f-key to hit that walks me through an erase menu. I'm used to Dells that use an f-key to access the boot menu to get the process going. ANyone have an adea of how to reformat the HD BESIDES take a sledgehammer to it!
Well, you should be able to boot from the Win2K disk and proceed that way - no earthly reason you'd require the 98 CD.
Any Win9x bootdisk would allow you to format the drive using DOS format, but later versions of Windows (such as 2K) can make use of the more advanced(?) NTFS file system , which 9x cannot.
More of a Win2K question, fwiw
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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