format hard drive
format hard drive
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- zgraham
is there a way to format my hard drive without a floppy drive? i have a pc with just cd drives.
- jox0
depends on the OS
- zgraham0
win 2000
- jox0
start in Dos mode (F8 upon start-up) and type format [drive]:
- joyride0
put cd in drive.
Go into Bios.
select boot device == cd
restart.
- JazX0
the entire process sucks
- tomkat0
if you intend to reinstall, you can do it in the installation.. win2k + XP
- zgraham0
great! i lost my win 2000 disk. guess i should hold off on that formating.
- vwsung18t0
partition magic
- jox0
or get a mac!
wait(!)... that doesn't sound like me!! Wtf? Mac??
No no, fuggedabout it - just do what I first told you. Dos mode + format... And find that cracked copy of 2K.
- sparker0
you can't format a mounted disk or partition.