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How to format hard drive
When I open Windows Explorer, right click on his hard drive and select format, the box pops up and gives me chance to perform full or quick format, (if they matter)...old hard drive formatted as FAT32 and has Win98SE installed, new hard drive (which will come out after transfer is complete) is formatted as NTFS

Re-format Hard Drive
If you have backed up your data and are ready to load W95, you have to determine whether or not to format the hard drive. When the format is complete, type: D: (the letter assumed to be assigned to your CDRom from above) and hit enter. At the D: prompt, type: CD Win95 and hit enter. At the Win95 prompt,

Format Hard Drive
"Dean" <a666o...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:010b01c2faef$e7c9b940$a501280a@phx. gbl... I hope somebody can help me here. I have just installed windows xp home edition on my other computer and it has kept most of the data from windows 98 SE. I want to reformat the hard drive and do a clean install of windows

format hard drive
The other kicker, the pc will only book to floppy or hard drive (not CD). He had personal You don't say why CD won't boot (I did read this before the reply If I do have to reformat the OS hard drive, will I ever get info off of the two hard drives in a Raid 0 Don't know, you maybe not, me maybe not but knows

Format Linux USB Hard Drive?
As for formatting a hard drive, if the drive (really the parition) is not being used by XP, then XP itself would be the easiest way to format it. Use XPs disk managment tool, or if the drive appears in explorer, just right-click and choose format. But, if you want to format the drive where XP is installed (usually

Creating a complete hard drive image on CD-ROM
When the format is complete, you will be prompted to enter a name for the hard disk. I always name my main boot drive MAIN, but any name 10 characters or less will do. Enter the name and press {enter} and you will be returned to the a:\ prompt with a newly formatted c:\ drive. Now put the Windows CD in the drive.

Apple IIe - Partition and Format a Hard drive on a Focus IDE card
Later, I moved out files from it and then when I tried to save other files, it says that the hard drive is not formatted. So I tried to format it in every way I knew Do you want to format it now?" So I click yes and it happens again, at around 99% or so, it says, "windows was unable to complete the format".

Format hard drive.
Your boot files are on C: so you *cannot* format it... but you can delete all there but the three files I mentioned on my other response If I delete all but those, will that then clear the hard-drive so that ic *can* be formatted? Sorry to be so dense. You ****CANNOT**** format that drive but if you delete

hard drive corruption
Z zarle...@conan.ids.net alt windows-me dc <dcr...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Anyone know how to format a hard drive that has ME loaded on it? I'm having way too many conflicts, crashes, and errors, and want to start over fresh. It was easy with older windows versions to reformat a drive from DOS, but ME doesn't seem to

Apple IIe - Partition and Format a Hard drive on a Focus IDE card
Once that is complete, go inot your mother brd setting 6. Make the cdrom the primary bootdisk once you changed back from the floppy 7. Alvin snape...@hotmail.com Brad wrote: i have windows xp and i want to reinstall it again after i format my hard drive but i can't seem to figure it out. i've tried booting it

Format Hard Drive With Bad Cluster
Currently,I've got 4.90.3000 Windows ME; Intel Pentium 4; 256 M RAM; and a 40 G hard drive. Is this enough RAM? I've been told to re-format the drive. My question is, if I re-format, will this remove the current partition? Secondly, if not, are there problems there being created by the Windows errors I'm getting

Apple IIe - Partition and Format a Hard drive on a Focus IDE card
I found the source so complex and inpenetrable (I'm not a IIgs programmer) that I gave up and used a IIgs for partitioning! ;-( I worked on a //e partitioning utility for a SCSI drive once, and it was quite easy, but I couldn't even identify the data structures being dealt with, they were so obscured by GUI code!

HELP - How do I format hard drive/reinstall W95?
Steve st...@yahoo1.com comp sys apple2 Can someone please help me. I have a focus hard drive card. the orginal hard drive died. I installed a new drive but that's all I can do. I can't figure out how to partition and format the new drive on my Apple IIe. and no... I don't have access to a GS !

Format hard drive, XP CD-Key?/
If you ever reformatted a hard drive, you would know what they're talking about. I will list the stages, without explaining how to do them, cuz that would take me a week. 1) Backup your stuff 2) Arrange a Win95 bootup floppy disk holding - Scandisk, fdisk, format, autoexec.bat (original), config.sys (original),

how to format hard drive
I must format hard drive to get rid of what ever I messed up. Then I need to know how and what to install to get back to workable computer. I have Win98SE and it seems that when I installed IE6.0, things when whacko. Have removed ( backed up to CD-R's )all important stuff, have start-up disc, Win98 software plus

Can a hard drive be physically damaged due to power loss at ...
If you've not formatted using FDisk before, go here, http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/ , for complete instructions. If I may ask, what is it about XP that you do not like? HTH, Curt. I installed xp pro home edition I hate it..I cant get it to restart in dos so i can format hard drive can anyone help plz.

Reinstall W2K and format hard drive
I have a focus hard drive card. the orginal hard drive died. I installed a new drive but that's all I can do. I can't figure out how to partition and format the new drive on my Apple IIe. and no... I don't have access to a GS ! <g> Sorry Steve, but the utility for Focus drive ( format and partition) works ONLY on

Format Hard Drive
Format terminated. CAUSE This problem can occur if either of the following conditions exists: You attempt to format your hard disk using the "format c: /q/u/s/v" command at a command prompt, and there is not enough free conventional memory to use the /s parameter (switch). You start your computer using the Windows

Windows Xp Home Upgrade Version - NTFS - Format Hard Drive
Anyway, I ordered a new computer and was going to "clean" the hard drive on the old computer. I was told to format the hard drive and reinstall the original software to delete all the junk I had on it. I had been using Norton Utilities 3.0 on the computer, so I knew there was a bad cluster on the hard drive.

format hard drive
I closed computer, add a 2nd hard drive, set to slave, partitioned and formatted. Now I'm not sure if I did the partitioning and formatting right, but I followed the onscreen commands and formatting is simply A:> format D: right? Anyway, my comp was able to recognize the new drive (D:) and I was able to copy my