Does anyone know how to format a hard drive in windows 2000

Slipstreem · Post by **Slipstreem** » Sun May 11, 2003 5:58 am

For some reason my pc doesnt recognise my C: drive when I start it up with a windows 98 startup disk! I dont know how to get into dos mode any other way to fomat my C: drive! (Need to reinstall from scratch to clear some issues with plug-ins)

Any suggestions?

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Sun May 11, 2003 1:59 pm

I assume your hard disk is in NTFS format. Normal DOS/win98 fdisk will not be able to delete NTFS partitions. There are tools on the net that will do the job - one such is called DELPART (just google on it).

Be very careful with this utility and read the instructions properly - particularly if you have other partitions than just C:/ on your hard drive.

peace

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Sun May 11, 2003 4:50 pm

One day i had been looking all over the place and i couldn't find this '98 bootdisk. Just when I was about to go mad, I found http://www.bootdisk.com with bootdisks for almost every OS. I think XP bootdisk (which is 6 diskettes!) will do the trick for you

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Sun May 11, 2003 6:26 pm

That should do it too, but you don't need to boot up with 6 disks if you only need to delete and format the partition

By the way, I wonder if theres any way of making a bootable CD version of that 6-disk XP bootdisk? It might be a bit more viable then...

[edit]
Just found a great site by a guy who, in his own words, has been making boot disks for 7 years

http://www.nu2.nu/

peace

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