can anyone please help me with formatting my hard drive

busterkeye

its a long story so I wont bother

Can anyone please help me? I want to totaly empty the comp and start from scratch

I have a XP disc and Windows start up disc. All I need is to format the hard drive anyone interested in taking on this challenge

desperado

hi busterkeye

have a look here and see if this helps.

http://www.buildyourown.org.uk/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7683&SearchTerms=reformat

busterkeye

Sorry desperado but no it doesnt lol


anyone with first hand exper ?

Genghis

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=reformat+windows+xp

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/honeycutt_02october07.mspx

http://www.cyberwalker.net/faqs/reinstall-reformat-winxp/index.html#reinstallxp

http://www.resnet.uni.edu/docs/reformatxp.html

..to name but a few

Toxteth_OGrady

If you do a fresh install of Windows from the installation CD it will detect the current OS and ask if you want to replace it, to which you should answer 'yes' It will then give you the option to fromat the drive.

Does your installation disk contain SP2. If not it's best to create an SP2 installation CD by slipstream.

:cool:

TOG

busterkeye

toxteth
if I do a fresh instal via the disc it wont install anything, cos the disc is older than the version on my comp (windows update)

but I dont want to go down this way again! all I want is to know how to rub the comp clean, if I cant do it, the hammer is going to find its use in life

I did say it was a long story and it is, AND I dont want to go with all that again, I just want to start all over again

Toxteth_OGrady

In which case get/make yourself a DOS boot diskette, boot from it and at the prompt type 'format c:'

:cool:

TOG

busterkeye

Toxteth_OGrady wrote:

In which case get/make yourself a DOS boot diskette, boot from it and at the prompt type 'format c:'

:cool:

TOG

I have no idea what you are on about


ALL I WANT TO DO IS FORMAT MY HARD DRIVE!!!!!! can anyone help me do it? and when its done will I be able to turn the comp on and put the windows disc in and it work


What if I unplug and take the battery out

Toxteth_OGrady

No need to shout.

You could try Google!!

However, put in a blank floppy, go to My Computer, right-click on the A: drive and select 'Format...........' in the context menu. In the format dialog that opens check 'Create MS-DOS boot disk' and OK.

Leave the floppy in the drive, power off and then power on your pc. Assuming A: is first in the BIOS boot menu, your PC will now boot into DOS running from the floppy. You will see:

A:>

Just type in format c:

If the floppy isn't the first boot device when you power on you will have to go into the bios to change it.

:cool:

TOG

busterkeye

lol toxteth could I email you later to show me what to do ive got to go

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NellyLock

Toxteth_OGrady wrote:

No need to shout.

You could try Google!!

However, put in a blank floppy, go to My Computer, right-click on the A: drive and select 'Format...........' in the context menu. In the format dialog that opens check 'Create MS-DOS boot disk' and OK.

Leave the floppy in the drive, power off and then power on your pc. Assuming A: is first in the BIOS boot menu, your PC will now boot into DOS running from the floppy. You will see:

A:>

Just type in format c:

If the floppy isn't the first boot device when you power on you will have to go into the bios to change it.

:cool:

TOG

why cant he just boot off the xp cd? thats what i do...dump xp cd into drive, make sure bios reads cd first and hit a key when it says press any key to boot from cd...

then into the xp setupy screens from there? in those screens you can format the drive as you please before the install starts.