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How to format c drive NTFS
Name: Navigator1 Date: October 24, 2004 at 03:49:35 Pacific OS: xp CPU/Ram: 550/312
Comment:
I know I can put the XP CD in and format and load Windows but I only want to format and not load Windows because I have a backup image I want to load. I know the image will overwrite the format anyway but I was wondering how I could format in NTFS. I tried the command format c:/s/fs:ntfs but it would not work. I had booted from a Windows ME startup disk.
Name: iamc Date: October 24, 2004 at 05:27:33 Pacific
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What software are you using to load the backup image? Most backup software doesn't require the target drive to be previously formatted, so maybe you can skip that step altogether.
I tried the command format c:/s/fs:ntfs but it would not work.
Ok. So what happened when you tried?
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Response Number 3
Name: pmkdatabase Date: October 24, 2004 at 05:38:06 Pacific
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What's the 's' in there? Try format c: /fs:ntfs
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Response Number 4
Name: ham30 Date: October 24, 2004 at 12:15:44 Pacific
Reply:
You could boot from the XP CD and use the Recovery Console.
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