[tazz1964]

To do this you will need lowlevel formatter for your harddrive,
windows OS cd,bootup floppy disk

HOW TO LOWLEVEL FORMAT HARDDRIVE
1) download lowlevel formatter to 31/2 floppy for your hard drive brand.
2) shut down system
3) insert lowlevel floppy and boot system
4) lower format program will start
5) follow on screen instructions to lowlevel format drive c:
6) shut down system
7) insert bootup disk in floppy start with cdrom support.
8) at a:/ tpye fdisk
9) when done at a:/ type format c:
10) shut down system
11) with floppy in drive reboot with cdrom support
12) put OS cd in cdrom drive
13) at a:/ type setup
14) windows should start to install

Note: windows xp will ask if you want to change to ntfs format I would do this.

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Just making sure that when u say boot disk you mean the 6 disk that you can get form like bootdisk.com right?? And what does a:\fdisk do??? when i low format my com does it also get rid of the dos thing that will take me to the blue setup screen form boot disk??
Also i try to rebot with the http://www.fel.fujit...tware/erase.zip i downlod and the com say that its not a system disk plese remove it to start windows...so is that the lowleavel format thing if it is then why is my com not loading it when start up but i can open it when i am in windows but when i do that in windows the thing say that my HD has erro so i don't know what to do.
to get a better understanding of my problems plsesee read the stuff b4..ty

Edited by cgboy, 12 February 2004 - 09:52 PM.

[cgboy]

Just making sure that when u say boot disk you mean the 6 disk that you can get form like bootdisk.com right?? And what does a:\fdisk do??? when i low format my com does it also get rid of the dos thing that will take me to the blue setup screen form boot disk??
Also i try to rebot with the http://www.fel.fujit...tware/erase.zip i downlod and the com say that its not a system disk plese remove it to start windows...so is that the lowleavel format thing if it is then why is my com not loading it when start up but i can open it when i am in windows but when i do that in windows the thing say that my HD has erro so i don't know what to do.
to get a better understanding of my problems plsesee read the stuff b4..ty

Edited by cgboy, 12 February 2004 - 09:52 PM.

[tazz1964]

Hi
fdisk is a fix disk utility that you need to run after lowlevel formatting. when you lowlevel format it removes everything off your harddrive makes it like a new one.
the lowlevel formatter that your downloading is a zip file so you have to download it the unzip it to a floppy for it to work. After I do this I just use a windows 98 bootdisk its only one disk when you install windows Xp it going to ask you if you want to change the format to ntfs and I would do this.

[cgboy]

I did unzip the file and put the exe file to the flopy, but when i start the computer it say that the disk is not a system one so i need to take it out inorder to start up my computer and back to the windows

[tazz1964]

Hi
In a earler post you posted (I think my harddrive is Fuji, i am not too sure) we need to make sure that it is. I don't like the fuji formatter.
look in your hardware device manager it should tell you what your hard drives are.

[cgboy]

Hi
In a earler post you posted (I think my harddrive is Fuji, i am not too sure) we need to make sure that it is. I don't like the fuji formatter.
look in your hardware device manager it should tell you what your hard drives are.

it is fuji for sure.

[tazz1964]

Hi
from what I can see the fuji program is not a bootable disk I'm looking into how you use there low-level formater for there hard drive. If you put the floopy in after you boot into windows can you look at the disk in your windows explorer and tell me what file names are on it.

[cgboy]

fjerase.exe

[tazz1964]

Hi
what your going to need to do is boot up in dos mode then at the a:/ type fjerase.exe then hit enter that should start the lowlevel formatter then you will need to do fdisk then format your harddrive.