re: format of C drive under XP Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:44 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Crash Override (2170 messages posted) Boot to the 98 boot disk, run FDISK, delete the non-DOS partition, (NTFS shows as non-DOS). Reboot to the XP CD and run setup, at some point setup will ask you where to install, and how to format, BE SURE YOU READ WHAT IS ON THE SCREEN, DON'T JUST CLICK AWAY LIKE A MANIAC. :-) On Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:33 am, Eva wrote: >Hi, > >I had a virus that made my PC unstable and have to >reformat the HD. I've tried to reload XP and do the format >that way but the program copies itself onto the C drive >and does not allow me to reformat the drive. I have tried also the format c: command >from a win 98 boot disk but >it did not work either. Help! >My drive is NTSF formatted and I am running XP Pro. > >Many thanks in advance! > >Eva Written in response to: format of C drive under XP (Eva: Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:33 am) Responses to this message: re: format of C drive under XP (noah: Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 7:52 am) re: format of C drive under XP (Eva: Thursday, December 11, 2003 at 8:16 am) All messages in this thread [show all] format of C drive under XP (Eva: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:33 am) re: format of C drive under XP (Crash Override: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:44 am) re: format of C drive under XP (noah: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 7:52 am) re: format of C drive under XP (Ricer46: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 8:18 am) re: format of C drive under XP (noah: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 9:10 am) re: format of C drive under XP (Eva: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 8:16 am) re: format of C drive under XP (Crash Override: Thu, Dec 11, 2003, 8:41 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum