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re: formatting the hard drive Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 11:43 am Posted by nyrlath (64 messages posted) Make a bootdisk, or download one from here: http://www.bootdisk.com/ Then you can boot to the disk and format. You know this will wipe out everything including windows right? If all you want to do is format a secondary hard drive just go to a command prompt and use format On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 11:18 am, Kenny wrote: >i have windows 2000 and i don't have a version of dos i want to format my hard drive >can i do that with command line? if not how can i do it? i know dos but i dont know >much about command line [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: formatting the hard drive Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 12:39 pm Posted by Michael (2800 messages posted) You can format your hard drive during the setup of Windows 2000. Just run setup, delete the old partition and create a new one - it will get formatted during the install. On Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 11:18 am, Kenny wrote: >i have windows 2000 and i don't have a version of dos i want to format my hard drive >can i do that with command line? if not how can i do it? i know dos but i dont know >much about command line [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum