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Old June 11th 04, 06:18 PM
Pkent
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I was wondering how to reformat my hardrive with windows
Me already installed?
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Old June 11th 04, 06:44 PM
Mike M
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You cannot format the drive containing the operating system when still using
that system. You can only do this from a DOS prompt after booting from a
floppy.

For details of how to fdisk and format see the Microsoft Knowledge Base
article 255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition
or Repartition a Hard Disk" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867) as
well as the file CLEANHD.TXT which is in the Win 9x folder on the Win Me CD.

I am prompted however to ask why do you wish to do this? What problems are
you having that make you feel the best solution is to clean install your
operating system.
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Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Pkent wrote:

I was wondering how to reformat my hardrive with windows
Me already installed?



 




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