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03-31-2004, 05:40 PM
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proberly the best way to do it is through partition magic 8. It's how I would do it
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03-31-2004, 05:45 PM
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Never deleat stuff manully from an OS folder
1)Get a DOS boot disc
2) insert DOS disc and it will load DOS
3)Type Format C: (replace C with whatever your hard drive is called
I think its:
Format C:
like that i could be wrong, If i am do this:
1)Do steps 1 and 2 as above.
2)Type FDISK and then go into the section where it displays your hard drive and format from there.
The reason you can't format from Windows is that the hard drive is being used BY windows! If it was a secondary hard drive and didn't have the OS on there it would do it fine!
Note i always get this mixed up it might be FDISK or it might be FDISC but i think its FDISK
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03-31-2004, 06:01 PM
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Originally posted by peerzyboy@31 March 2004 - 17:45
Never deleat stuff manully from an OS folder
I know that now and I'm sorry!
Thanks for the quick response Marius24 and peerzyboy.
Couple of follow up questions if I may:
Marius24: What's "partition magic 8"?
peerzyboy: The link for the DOS Boot Disc is to a defunct website. Any chance you could provide me with another link please.
Thanks again, much appreciated!
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03-31-2004, 06:11 PM
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^would've been cool.
scoreage, my friend
win2k is actually one of m$' better OSes...
also, just use killdisk to clean off the entire disk. after the disk is wiped, insert the winXP cd and boot from it. while ur at it, you shoul be able to choose partition sizes...
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03-31-2004, 06:26 PM
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forget all that, just boot to the windows xp bootable disk, during the install process you can delete all partitions and reformat during the setup.
EDIT: If you have the drive set to NTFS the dos boot disk will not help anyway.
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03-31-2004, 06:27 PM
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^would've been cool.
Originally posted by firefox@31 March 2004 - 13:26
forget all that, just boot to the windows xp bootable disk, during the install process you can delete all partitions and reformat during the setup.
killdisk does a full 7 stage wipe...
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03-31-2004, 06:32 PM
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Originally posted by atiVidia@31 March 2004 - 18:11
win2k is actually one of m$' better OSes...
You serious about that? I've had problems all the time with it!
Thanks for the info anyway. I like the sound of killdisk.
PS Excuse my ignorance but what does "scoreage" mean?
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03-31-2004, 06:35 PM
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03-31-2004, 07:11 PM
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Would do the throwing thing if I had the money to burn but I'm a bit tight for cash right now.
What's "partition magic 8"?
This computer was bought quite a few years ago so I don't have recovery disk - nice try though!
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