Formating Hard Drive

MasterC · 08-25-2003, 01:33 AM

Did you create a windoze boot disk? www.bootdisk.com That should be all you need, plop it in the floppy, boot it up, and follow the above instructions.

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Zakane · 08-25-2003, 12:39 PM

I was already using a windows 98 boot disk but I suppose it can't hurt to make a new one.

MasterC · 08-25-2003, 12:47 PM

Mornin! With the win98 boot disk, you should be able to boot up the a:\ prompt, at which point you'd type:
fdisk
And be taken into the fdisk program on the floppy. You should then be able to remove/create all partitions necessary for your purpose, after which you'll need to format them (after you exit fdisk and restart, boot back with the floppy):
format C:
And if you made more than 1:
format D:
and so on..

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Zakane · 08-25-2003, 01:07 PM

Hey Thanks I think I got it, its formating now, what I did was make a MS DoS boot then put fdisk on another disk, after dos booted up I switch the disk and ran fdisk to make a Dos partition, now it allowing me to format my C:.

MasterC · 08-25-2003, 01:12 PM

Glad to see you got it working

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Zakane · 08-25-2003, 01:13 PM

Yeah, one day I'll have to sit down and take an extensive course in Linux, and mess with it when I am more wiser, Anyway thanks for the help!