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Formatting without a floppy

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I have a laptop and want to wipe clean the Hard drive on... but it has no floppy drive... how do you format with just a cd rom drive? Any help would be appreciated!

Name: BuzzStPoint
Date: March 8, 2005 at 11:42:48 Pacific

Reply:

I feel the best emergency cd is here http://ebcd.pcministry.com/ Emergency boot cd or EBCD Follow the website to make the bootable image.

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Name: doc is back
Date: March 8, 2005 at 11:47:26 Pacific

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Nothing needed but your xp cd. The xp cd is bootable and provides the format options to wipe the harddrive. When all is said and done, I hope the girls can say they had fun..

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