[Impulz]

I remember on Win 98 and below, to reformat you typed C:/reformat or what ever it was in DOS.

I was just wondering if anyone knew if its possible to somehow do this when you are using XP?

Ive been told you can only reformat with your xp disc, but a system is a sytem isnt it?
If you want to wipe an operating system completely and boot up in dos from scratch, is it not possible?

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Howdy:

It can be done with a Win98SE or WinME boot floppy but you will have to fdisk first to remove all Non-DOS partitions, fdisk again to set a Primary DOS partition and then format..

Of course, you will be left with a system that doesn't have an operating system on it !!

Murray

[Murray S.]

Howdy:

It can be done with a Win98SE or WinME boot floppy but you will have to fdisk first to remove all Non-DOS partitions, fdisk again to set a Primary DOS partition and then format..

Of course, you will be left with a system that doesn't have an operating system on it !!

Murray

[Impulz]

It can be done with a Win98SE or WinME boot floppy but you will have to fdisk first to remove all Non-DOS partitions, fdisk again to set a Primary DOS partition and then format..

Of course, you will be left with a system that doesn't have an operating system on it !!

So i would have to find someone with one of those discs or d/l it?

Im a little in the dark about fdisk'ing to remove the non-dos partitions and the primary dos partition, i will look into it thou by research.

Thnx anyways!

[Retired Tech]

If you are sure you want to format then see if the free version of killdisk helps, though what are you going to do for an Operating System

Drive Eraser

[Impulz]

If you are sure you want to format then see if the free version of killdisk helps, though what are you going to do for an Operating System

Drive Eraser

Yea good question.

Im not actually planning to do this.
I was just curious as ive been told that you can NOT do it with out a boot up disk.

Thnx for the link by the way.