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Hard Drive reformat with no floppy

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Name: Voltimus
Date: March 24, 2005 at 14:20:41 Pacific
OS: WindowsXP
CPU/Ram: 256MB
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I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to reformat my hard drive without a floppy boot disk. Can I create a boot disk CD? My laptop has no floppy drive, although I do have a USB floppy. I'm not sure if the laptop will "see" it when I go to run a boot disk.



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Name: wanderer
Date: March 24, 2005 at 14:31:35 Pacific
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xp cd is bootable. boot it via the bios and use install to wipe/partition and format the drive


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Response Number 2
Name: Voltimus
Date: March 24, 2005 at 14:38:19 Pacific
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Thanks,
My first reformat with XP, sounds easier than other OS's


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Response Number 3
Name: per
Date: March 24, 2005 at 14:43:15 Pacific
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Can you do that with a Compaq recovery disk? Just curious.


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