Formatting a hard drive running win XP

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cosmic P

Hey all,, it seems that our friend Mr Gates doesn't want me to format my
hard drive! is there any way that it can be done? (thru other OSs installed
on the same system perhaps?) If its not do-able,, (or just excessively
difficult) tell me that too,, put me out of my misery :-)

Thanks!
 
cosmic P said:
Hey all,, it seems that our friend Mr Gates doesn't want me to format my
hard drive! is there any way that it can be done? (thru other OSs installed
on the same system perhaps?) If its not do-able,, (or just excessively
difficult) tell me that too,, put me out of my misery :-)
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Depends which drive you want to format. System? Boot? Data? C:? D:? X:?
You cannot format hard drive from which you booted. If you want to do that
then you must boot from the WinXP CD.
 
Alien Zord said:
Depends which drive you want to format. System? Boot? Data? C:? D:? X:?
You cannot format hard drive from which you booted. If you want to do that
then you must boot from the WinXP CD.
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correct

otherwise just use disk management
 
Hey all,, it seems that our friend Mr Gates doesn't want me to format my
hard drive! is there any way that it can be done? (thru other OSs installed
on the same system perhaps?) If its not do-able,, (or just excessively
difficult) tell me that too,, put me out of my misery :-)

Thanks!
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Computer management, which is one of the administrative tools in the
control panel has the Disk manager. Your drives and partitions should show
up there. This is where you partition the drive and format the partitions.
You also change drive letters, etc.. there.

JT
 
You format an XP drive by inserting the XP installation CD, booting from it,
and letting the installation begin, and then you will get to a place where
you are asked if you want to format the harddrive. Follow the directions
from there on.
 
cosmic p

actually he only wants those that know what they are
doing.......................to format their hard drives. Now is you were
asking a question as to how to do it, I would have been more than glad to
explain it to you.

Maybe "Bill" will help you
 
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