uhhh How do i format a drive?

[fps justin]

i need to load windows 2000. I got 4 boot discs and a cd. Now all i have to do is format the HDD and load the OS. I forgot how to format the HDD without doing it FROM the OS. Guys wanna help out?

AND TRY NOT TO LAUGH AT ME :oops:

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by fps justin

AND TRY NOT TO LAUGH AT ME :oops:

Na Im not going to laugh, hell that is easy to forget, unless you do it all the time :shock:

There is a couple of ways of doing it though, one way is through the os cd disk. It should give you the option to delete the active partition. It will warn you that you are about to delete and loose everything. Delete the main partition, and then recreate a main partition. Once that is done, it will automaticly have to format the hard drive in order to install the OS. If you do it this way, (recomended), be sure to format the drive NTFS. Not FAT32.

The other way to do a format is, once you do the boot up disks you can type in: format C:

Be sure to include the space after "format". This will also warn you that you are about to loose every thing on the current drive.

hope this helps Justin

[fps justin]

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You know we don't link other forums.....we have always linked other people's articles and news, but I draw the line at forums (honestly, its in the rules)

[yurimxpxman]

You needn't reformat before inserting the boot discs. The Windows installation will ask you to reformat and repartition the drive.

[fps justin]

thats what i thought. My main problem now is just to get it to boot the OS. I have a feeling that its the discs that are the problem, if anything.

[yurimxpxman]

Run a full format. Sometimes the quick ones screw up OS installations.

[fps justin]

the problem is, i can't even get there. It won't read the boot disc. my conclusion, is that my boot discs are bad.

how to create new ones?

[yurimxpxman]

Originally Posted by fps justin

the problem is, i can't even get there. It won't read the boot disc. my conclusion, is that my boot discs are bad.

how to create new ones?

Materials:
1 Large Sledge Hammer
5 Blank CDs
1 Sharpie Marker
1 PC Infected With the Microsoft Virus
1 Online PC

Instructions:

• Smash Win2000 CDs repeatedly until nothing exists but microscopic particles
  
• Download Fedora Core 5 and burn to discs
  
• Label the FC5 discs
  
• Install FC5 on the infected PC

[fps justin]

if only life was that easy, i'd use linux or winblows xp. However, i'm stuck with winblows 2000.

[yurimxpxman]

It sounds more like a bad CD drive than a bad disc. Try another drive.