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Reformat Hard Drive
I need to know how to reformat the hard drive on my son's computer. It's an
old HP with Windows ME on it. We have the CD to reinstall the OS, I just don't remember how to do the reformat. |
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Reformat Hard Drive
*Also asked in - and replied to - the WinMe.General NG.*
The simplest answer is to boot - using the WinMe (floppy) Startup disk - and at the A:\ prompt, type " format c: " (no quotes and notice the colon after the letter c) That should format the C: drive. However, if you want a more detailed instructions, a couple of very useful documents are on your WinMe CD (and probably on your C: drive too) called setup.txt file and cleanhd.txt which are well worth reading. You should also and print out and have handy a copy of the cleanhd.txt file - a copy of which you can also see here :- "Windows Millennium Edition Cleanhd.txt File Contents" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271673/en-us Also, be sure that you've still got a copy of the 25 digit product key, before you start and any 'machine specific' drivers (often on a separate CD) which *may* have come with your PC. (Don't worry too much if you haven't any drivers as there's usually some work-around available) Mart "Cindy" wrote in message ... I need to know how to reformat the hard drive on my son's computer. It's an old HP with Windows ME on it. We have the CD to reinstall the OS, I just don't remember how to do the reformat. |
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Reformat Hard Drive
However, if you want a more detailed instructions, a couple of very useful
documents are on your WinMe CD (and probably on your C: drive too) called setup.txt file and cleanhd.txt which are well worth reading. You should also and print out and have handy a copy of the cleanhd.txt file - a copy of which you can also see here :- "Windows Millennium Edition Cleanhd.txt File Contents" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271673/en-us I used to tell Mr P that my ME cd never had that file on it. OEM donchano. I got it by copying the text from that webpage you link to into a text file. PRF |
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