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format.com/fdisk.exe
Name: Renee Davidson Date: November 2, 2001 at 17:54:52 Pacific
Comment:
I just bought a new hard drive and Windows ME and I have a boot disk for Windows ME but it doesnt have format.com and fdisk.exe and I need to format my hard drive what should I do? Could anybody e-mail me the files? Thank You!
Name: newgrl Date: November 2, 2001 at 18:22:42 Pacific
Reply:
Those files are located on the cd in the Win9x folder.
Boot with the bootdisk. Choose with cd rom support. Browse to your cd rom drive:\win9x Run fdisk and format from there.
Or alternatively... download an image to extract to a floppy from bootdisk.com
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Response Number 2
Name: Al Date: November 2, 2001 at 19:59:02 Pacific
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You can also copy the files from the CD to the floppy. Al
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Response Number 3
Name: Renee DAvidson Date: November 3, 2001 at 05:47:13 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you! I am going to get started right away.
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Response Number 4
Name: John Steadman Date: November 5, 2001 at 17:30:58 Pacific
Reply:
Renee, The easist way to get those programs on a boot disk is to get into control panel/add/remove programs/startup disk/ create disk. Windows will create a full boot disk with the utilities you require.
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