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re: windows xp Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 6:59 am Posted by TonyW (174 messages posted) Using a BOOT FLOPPY - you did make one? - at the A:/ prompt, type format c:\ and hit ENTER 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 9:41 pm Posted by leo54 (4 messages posted) yes been there done that, no luck, On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 6:59 am, Tony Wise wrote: >Using a BOOT FLOPPY - you did make one? - at the A:/ prompt, type > >format c:\ > >and hit ENTER > > >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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Formatting Windows XP Wednesday, September 26, 2001 at 10:03 am Posted by Jeremy (1 messages posted) 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp Sunday, September 30, 2001 at 12:03 am Posted by the hatch (1 messages posted) if you used ntfs you won't get a c: prompt. i'd boot from floppy type fdisk /mbr then type fdisk hit option 4 i think it is been awhile (delete partion) then select the option after that(non ms-dos partition). that should correct any problems. When you relod the os, it will repartion your drive. and format. Not this will erase everything on your hard drive. On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 9:41 pm, leo54 wrote: >yes been there done that, no luck, > > >On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 6:59 am, Tony Wise wrote: >Using a BOOT FLOPPY - you did make one? - at the A:/ prompt, type > >format c:\ > >and hit ENTER > > >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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp Wednesday, October 3, 2001 at 9:45 am Posted by Larry (9 messages posted) Use this debug script and it is impossible for it not to work on a good Harddrive This debug routine is used to erase all partition information on the hard disk drive and is only recommend for experienced users or users who are unable to delete the partition information through fdisk . A:\>debug -F 200 L1000 0 -A CS:100 xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301 xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200 xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1 xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 (80 for hd 0 or 81 for hd 1 ) xxxx:010C INT 13 xxxx:010E INT 20 xxxx:0110 -g Program terminated normally -q Once this debug routine is complete reboot computer and all partitions should be erased. Before anything can be installed back onto the computer you must run Fdisk and recreate the partition as well as format the hard disk drive. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp Wednesday, October 3, 2001 at 9:47 am Posted by Larry (9 messages posted) 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 Try This***This debug routine is used to erase all partition information on the hard disk drive and is only recommend for experienced users or users who are unable to delete the partition information through fdisk. A:\>debug -F 200 L1000 0 -A CS:100 xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301 xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200 xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1 xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 (80 for hd 0 or 81 for hd 1 ) xxxx:010C INT 13 xxxx:010E INT 20 xxxx:0110 -g Program terminated normally -q Once this debug routine is complete reboot computer and all partitions should be erased. Before anything can be installed back onto the computer you must run Fdisk and recreate the partition as well as format the hard disk drive. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp Wednesday, October 3, 2001 at 11:46 am Posted by Greg (1 messages posted) Try repartitioning your Hard Drive from DOS, in the process it will be forced to wipe out any existing data. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: windows xp Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 9:50 am Posted by Ante (6 messages posted) If you haven´t been able to format yet I suggest you try delpart.exe It removes every sort of filesystem, Dos, non dos, fat32, ntfs. Send me a mail 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Formatting Windows XP Wednesday, November 21, 2001 at 7:56 am 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..... [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 XP Discussion Forum