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format hard drive, without floppy
Name: accoberg Date: March 18, 2004 at 06:03:43 Pacific OS: win xp home CPU/Ram: unsure
Comment:
I have a friend who has a laptop she wants to wipe clean the Hard drive on... I told her no problem but then I discovered she has no floppy drive... how do you format with just a cd rom drive? Any help would be appreciated!
Name: angrymen2001 Date: March 18, 2004 at 06:05:37 Pacific
Reply:
Go into bios and change to boot from CD. Install XP CD and let the big dog work
If it ain't broke upgrade it!!!
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Response Number 2
Name: Mark Long Date: March 18, 2004 at 06:09:22 Pacific
Reply:
Try this site:
http://www.duxcw.com/dcforum/DCForumID7/661.html
it also looks like you can get the floppy you will need there.
M
alternatively Google ' XP format hard drive, without floppy'
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Response Number 3
Name: ranchhand Date: March 18, 2004 at 06:59:18 Pacific
Reply:
Boot from the CD with XP system disk. Select Install fresh, do not select Upgrade. Go into the format screen, and remove all partitions, that wipes the drive clean. Then reset your partition(s), format, and the install starts automatically after format is complete.
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