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20-April-04, 03:28 PM
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| Apex Techie Wannabe Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Australia
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 |  XP Pro Full HDD format? Hi, I've been trying to do a full hdd format on an already install xp pro OS. When I used to do it on Win 98 it was easy to just throw in a boot disk, go to a dos prompt & whamo... I have no idea how to do it in XP???... I could sure use some help, but please keep it newbie simple please  Cheers Trezz |
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20-April-04, 03:35 PM
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| H.A.L.O.-Hoe  Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Fayetteville NC
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    | Get into your bios and have it boot from cd..Then when it askes to press any key to boot from cd then do so..When you have the option of deleating your current partisions do so and reformat them..
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20-April-04, 03:36 PM
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| Apex Master Tech  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Springfield Mass
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| wel trez good news do the same thing u did with windows 98 boot from a floppy, format the drive then goto the cdrom:\i386 then type winnt and boom there ya go hope it helps  heres a web page too http://www.tweakxp.com/tweak362.aspxedit: (lol one min apart) or you can do what he said
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20-April-04, 03:39 PM
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| Banned  Join Date: May 2003 Location: looking for love in the nearest gay bar
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  | If you're formatting the boot disk, boot to your XP CD and after selecting install and hdd, select to perform a full NTFS format. If you're formatting a secondary disk; Start>Run>Type "CMD">Type FORMAT drive_letter_here: /FS:NTFS /V:HD Enter the volume label desired when prompted and proceed with format. |
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20-April-04, 03:46 PM
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| Apex Techie Wannabe Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Australia
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| I'll give it a go...I did manage to format the partion, however it still keep all my files on c drive. Problem is I have some stupid worm, and even though I've cleaned it, it must be reciprocating itself to other parts of the HDD; mouse pointer goes burserk & pulls all kinds of stuff, hence the full format needed. Thanks for your help, much appreicated |
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20-April-04, 04:05 PM
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| Apex Tech God  Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Somerset, England UK........ News Threads: 8,143
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 | Im lost..you say it keeps all of files on drive C when you partitioned it - surley all of those files are now corrupt - unless you didnt want them.... Yes as above wither boot from CD ROM in bios, or use the boot disk, then type in the CD DRIVE letter (eg d D:\ (ENTER) CD I386 (ENTER) WINNT (ENTER) this take you itno an area of the XP instalation that is rarly touched - only used for a DOS startup
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20-April-04, 05:41 PM
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| Decept-Hoe-Con  Join Date: Aug 2002
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| Another option is a low level format. What brand of harddrive is it? Go to the manufacturers website and download the disk utility and do a low level format. That will take a couple hours but will totally erase the disk no questions asked. |
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22-April-04, 04:11 AM
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| Apex Techie Wannabe Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Australia
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| Hi all, Ok...I've done it. Firstly I did a fdisk, then from a dos prompt did a full format of c drive. Did go to SeaGate to get grab a low level format tool, but couldn't figure out how to use it; see told I was a newbie. Anyway all taken care of and fresh install of XP now running. The most frustrating thing...After the fresh install and everything, the mouse pointer was still going berserk & pulling up windows & cr#p. Turns out the mouse was f#cked, bought a new one & everything is fine now. O'Well needed a fresh install anyway! Thanks for everyone who posted their help, much appreciated! Cheers Trezz |
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