Format Question

[george]

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Hi All,
I would like to format my win2k IBM 80gig hard drive, but I can't find my
windows
disk. I downloaded a boot disk (floopy), so pc boots up and then runs dos.
Then I try and run command format c: but with no success, it says invalid
format.com. If I run Fdisk, it can only delete the partition, without
actually formatting existing one - what do I do?
Cheers

 

[peter]

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> Hi All,
> I would like to format my win2k IBM 80gig hard drive, but I can't find my
> windows
> disk. I downloaded a boot disk (floopy), so pc boots up and then runs dos.
> Then I try and run command format c: but with no success, it says invalid
> format.com. If I run Fdisk, it can only delete the partition, without
> actually formatting existing one - what do I do?
> Cheers

Boot off your Win2K CD.

 

[Guest]

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george wrote:
>
> I would like to format my win2k IBM 80gig hard drive, but I can't find my
> windows
> disk. I downloaded a boot disk (floopy), so pc boots up and then runs dos.
> Then I try and run command format c: but with no success, it says invalid
> format.com. If I run Fdisk, it can only delete the partition, without
> actually formatting existing one - what do I do?

Well, since you want to toss the data anyway, why not toss the partition
using fdisk, then recreate it, then format.



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http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

[Guest]

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You use Disk Manager - My Computer - Manage.

"george" <nospam@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
> I would like to format my win2k IBM 80gig hard drive, but I can't find my
> windows
> disk. I downloaded a boot disk (floopy), so pc boots up and then runs dos.
> Then I try and run command format c: but with no success, it says invalid
> format.com. If I run Fdisk, it can only delete the partition, without
> actually formatting existing one - what do I do?
> Cheers
>
>
>