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Old May 20th 04, 06:32 PM
Mary Lou
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Default Erasing Info from hard drive

Using windows 98 on computer. Computer is partially
working and I want to erase whatever I can from the hard
drive (windows explorer not working). How do I do this.
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Old May 20th 04, 11:43 PM
Bert Kinney
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Hi Mary Lou,

If you want to delete everything on the drive, boot with a Windows
Startup disk. At the A:\ prompt type Format C: then press enter.
Warning: everything on the C:\ partition will be lost.

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"Mary Lou" wrote
Using windows 98 on computer. Computer is partially
working and I want to erase whatever I can from the hard
drive (windows explorer not working). How do I do this.



 




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