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Hi, i'd like to wipe my HardDrive clean and start it over but WinXP doesnt seem to offer the Fdisk command like older windows. I've looked for it in Help&Support. I've looked for it in the C:\ prompt and i cant find it anywhere. If anyone knows how i can do this, please email me at (e-mail address removed)

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Rio
 
Hi, i'd like to wipe my HardDrive clean and start it over but WinXP doesnt seem to offer the Fdisk command like older windows. I've looked for it in Help&Support. I've looked for it in the C:\ prompt and i cant find it anywhere. If anyone knows how i can do this, please email me at (e-mail address removed)

Thanx,
Rio
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Rio,

Asked here, answered here. For everybody's benefit.

Boot from the WinXP install CD. The FDisk procedure is in there. Just have it
delete the existing partition, then create a new partition.

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
 
Do a google for delpart.exe to delete partitions on a
NTFS drive.

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over but WinXP doesnt seem to offer the Fdisk command
like older windows. I've looked for it in Help&Support.
I've looked for it in the C:\ prompt and i cant find it
anywhere. If anyone knows how i can do this, please email
me at (e-mail address removed)
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Rio,

You may use the XP CD to partition, format the hard disk. The following guides will help!

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/XPClean.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/expertzone/columns/honeycutt/02october07.asp

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm

--
Ramesh - Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
www.mvps.org/sramesh2k

Free Online Virus Scanners and Security Tests:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Scanners.htm



Hi, i'd like to wipe my HardDrive clean and start it over but WinXP doesnt seem to offer the Fdisk command like older windows. I've looked for it in Help&Support. I've looked for it in the C:\ prompt and i cant find it anywhere. If anyone knows how i can do this, please email me at (e-mail address removed)

Thanx,
Rio
 
Hi, Rio.
WinXP doesnt seem to offer the Fdisk command like older windows.
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No, Windows NEVER included the FDISK command. FDISK is a program that runs
only under MS-DOS, not Windows. Even in Win9x/ME - and in MS-DOS versions
from long ago - if you wanted to partition your hard drive, you had to boot
from something other than that hard drive: usually an MS-DOS boot floppy.

WinXP is based on the NT architecture, not MS-DOS. We can use the built-in
utility Disk Management to create, delete and format partitions and logical
drives in WinXP. EXCEPT that it can't deal with the "system partition" or
"boot volume" (both are often Drive C:). To partition and format the main
(or only) hard drive, we can boot from the WinXP CD-ROM.

To "wipe my HardDrive clean and start it over", just boot from the WinXP
CD-ROM and follow the prompts, including the very early one that offers to
repartition and/or reformat the drive.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP

Rio said:
Hi, i'd like to wipe my HardDrive clean and start it over but WinXP doesnt
Click to expand...
seem to offer the Fdisk command like older windows. I've looked for it in
Help&Support. I've looked for it in the C:\ prompt and i cant find it
anywhere. If anyone knows how i can do this, please email me at
(e-mail address removed)
 
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