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Can't reformat hard drive with XP..Help?
Name: Craig Date: July 25, 2002 at 12:04:59 Pacific
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I have Windows XP Pro installed on my computer. I need to reformat the hard drive. I've seen that people use a windows 98 startup disk to do this. I don't have windows 98. There must be some way of doing this with XP. I tried typing format c:/s but I get bad command or file name. Please help. Please email me at cma1974@hotmail.com thanks.
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