Formatting

Can someone please tell me how to format my harddrinve?
How do I create a bootdisc so I can boot up to dos to
format?? I need to do this for both ME and XP

Thanks

Beau

Boot Disk:
If you don't have a boot floppy you can create a boot floppy (EBD) or
start up disk as follows:
Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Startup Disk and follow the prompts.

If you get asked for the location of a "missing" file point the wizard
towards your Win Me cab files which should be in either the
windows\options\cabs or windows\options\install folder. Alternatively
point to the Win9x folder on the Win Me CD. Specifically look for the
file BASE2.CAB and then point the wizard at the folder containing
base2.cab..

If you are unable to create a boot floppy you can download the image of a
Win Me OEM boot disk from www.bootdisk.com. Download to your desktop,
double click to run and follow the prompts to transfer the image to a
floppy.

Formatting:
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).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Beau wrote:

Can someone please tell me how to format my harddrinve?
How do I create a bootdisc so I can boot up to dos to
format?? I need to do this for both ME and XP