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Formatting Hard Drive
Name: John Date: April 5, 2002 at 15:35:10 Pacific
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Hi i am trying to format my hard drive. I have two hard drives and i was to format one to be the master. Windows xp wont let me format. It says that there are programs running. I am trying to run in ms-dos mode but i don't know how? I am trying to format by using the command Fdisk. I want to format my D drive. I need to restart my computer in ms-dos. Does anyone know how?
right click MY COMPUTER, then click MANAGE. click on DISK MANAGEMENT. look for DISK 1 in the lower right hand pane. click DELETE PARTION, then click CREATE PARTITION and follow the wizard.
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Response Number 2
Name: Kerwin Date: April 5, 2002 at 16:15:17 Pacific
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Make 6 Win Xp Floppies PUT ONE IN AND RESTART then follow instructions untill you see--Would you like to format Drive using NTFS Systems? Highlight and press enter Good luck
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Response Number 3
Name: BeBe Date: April 6, 2002 at 10:17:06 Pacific
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If you want to format D: drive just click on properties on D: then format. If you want to format C: then you need a floopy disk (win98 Bootdisk) afte you boot into dos just type fdisk or just type "format c:" if it doesn't let you do it, it means your file systerm is NTFS, then you gotta do the fdisk one then delete non-dos partation then create the parmary partation, (it goes back to FAT32) then format c:
Hope this Help!!
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Response Number 4
Name: Mikail Date: May 3, 2002 at 07:10:02 Pacific
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I'm trying to format my hard drive with XP, I made a startup in Dos disc but I don't know what to type in to format the C drive
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Response Number 5
Name: Jerry Date: May 19, 2002 at 04:47:14 Pacific
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Im running windows xp and I recently just got a new hdd and i backed up everything on it. but when i tryed to format it, it didn't work! I tryed typing "format c:" in the command prompt that didn't work, i even clean installed winxp again but that just made have 2 operating systems. Does anyone know how to solve this? Any replies would be much apreciated!
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Response Number 6
Name: John S Date: May 20, 2002 at 06:54:47 Pacific
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I wish to format my C drive but my Win 98 program is on a CD with some other stuff. Can I separate the Win 98 from the CD put it on to a ZIP Disc and reload it from there after I have formatted the drive? Thanx, J
Summary: 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'...
Summary: peter Date: May 26, 2002 at 13:30:41 Pacific Subject: formatting hard drive in XP I tried to format my HD as peter said above twice. When I get to the part where I select the drive Wins XP is installe...
Summary: having trouble here wanting to format hard drive have copied the format.com in windows xp but it wont work. all iam getting is it wont work in dos mode have tried the format command with win 95 and 9...
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