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What is the best way to reformat your hdd

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Whats the Operating System?
Are you reinstalling the same Operating System?
A little more details please?




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someone is giving me a computer, I want to wipe whatever is on there, and install win2000 pro

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I would use Fdisk from a Win98 boot disk. Then if you want a Fat32 partition, restart and format from that disk. But if you want an NTFS partition, leave the new partition unformatted and have the setup format it.

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ok thanks

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