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re: Formatting Windows XP
Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 7:56 am
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Posted by blitZkRiEG (1 messages posted)





On Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 10:03 am, Jeremy wrote:
>You are probably having this problem because you selected the NTFS file system for
>Windows XP install. To remove the partition and reformat your drive, you will need
>to find a Windows 2000 or XP bootable CD. Insert the CD and begin installation, and
>when it gets to the screen about choosing a partition delete the current partition
>and any others that may be on there. Reboot the system. Then you should be able to
>use FDISK or whatever to make a new partition & format.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Jeremy
>
>
>


>On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 5:12 am, leo54 wrote:
>I have tryed every thing I know to format my HHD but still can not becouse it's
>got
>windows xp on it, I dont have a low leval format in my cmos and I've tryed fdisking
>the drive with no luck, I even tryed format disk in ztwin, but still no luck, has
>eny one got eny throught's.
>
>leo I have the same problem. i had it with windows me also. but i forget how i solved it. i think i used the disk that came with windows 95 to boot with then used the format program on it.....


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Formatting Windows XP (Jeremy: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 10:03 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-windows xp (leo54: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 5:12 am)
-re: windows xp (TonyW: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 6:59 am)
-re: windows xp (leo54: Tue, Sep 25, 2001, 9:41 pm)
*re: windows xp (the hatch: Sun, Sep 30, 2001, 12:03 am)
*re: windows xp (Larry: Wed, Oct 3, 2001, 9:45 am)
-Formatting Windows XP (Jeremy: Wed, Sep 26, 2001, 10:03 am)
*re: Formatting Windows XP (blitZkRiEG: Wed, Nov 21, 2001, 7:56 am)
*re: windows xp (Larry: Wed, Oct 3, 2001, 9:47 am)
*re: windows xp (Greg: Wed, Oct 3, 2001, 11:46 am)
*re: windows xp (Ante: Sat, Oct 6, 2001, 9:50 am)
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