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Formatting hard drive
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| Decessus 2004-10-16, 2:26 pm |
| I am trying to completely reformat my hard drive. I have inserted the Window's XP CD-rom and I am currently at the point where it asks me if I want to delete a partition. When I choose the option to delete it however, I get a message saying that it can't because it has installation files temporarily on the partition I'm trying to delete. Can someone help me out and tell me how I can completely erase my hard drive? | |
| darthfeces 2004-10-16, 9:13 pm |
| f-disk it ....
boot from a dos disk and kill the mbr | |
| curiousgeorge 2004-10-18, 2:52 pm |
| You can make one from www.bootdisk.com
hope that helps. | |
| enforcer 2004-10-18, 7:51 pm |
| Boot from the CD rather than run it from within windows. | |
| xkdoan 2004-11-08, 3:03 am |
| Enforcer guy is rite-on. When u run setup from Win32 kernel thingy, its executive won't delete itself. If your CDRom drive is bootable, go for it. ElseIf, try to create some XP boot-up diskettes and proceed that route. Else, buy a new CDRom drive. End if X2 :-) | |
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| CDROM Drive is always bootable, just u have to check if the CD is bootable or not. if not then make a bootdisk from bootdisk.com or download the DM. or use ranish or partion magic (which is the better way). | |
| sandy7000 2004-11-09, 7:33 pm |
| I honestly prefer ranish on a floppy formatted w/ Win98 as the boot loader.
I know, I know..old fart land, however, Ranish can be used to resize the partitions even after installing XP if you format & leave Fat32 until you're certain you want NTFS.
You also can have even more flexibility than if you use Windows to create your partitions. I've used Ranish to create a 3 OS drive that could boot first to Linux's dual boot w/ XP, then to XP dual boot w/ W2K. You just have to change the boot letter in Ranish to the one you want to make Linux the first boot partition. Otherwise, XP won't install ANY other os, including W2K.
However, Ranish is best known as a partition formatting program...(blah, blah blah. I'm getting windy as I age.)
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| sandy7000 2004-11-10, 12:07 pm |
| Well, I just realized you can use DISKPART.exe in XP for extending partitions. Get with the program I suppose.
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