Wondering how to Reformat Hard drive.

[Kinetik*]

I was wondering how I would go about reformatting my hard drive, so that I could start anew. aNd I was wondering if I would need a windows installation disk, rather than say, just a boot disk, to restart windows. Any help would be much appreciated.

[Curi0us_George]

Well to format, you're going to need a boot disk of some sort. Windows 2000/XP have an option to reformat during the install (if you choose "clean install", instead of "upgrade".

To install Windows again, you will definitely need an install disk.

What version of Windows are you going to install? And is it a retail version, or OEM?

[Bilbo Baggins]

Are you going to FDISK your HDD?

[apollos]

switch pc on

have bootdisk in to go to DOS

format c:

restart the pc and run the setup for the new os or whatever from the bootdisk



dont bother with f disk. there really is not much point in it.

[Rocker]

Originally posted by Inatlantis
dont bother with f disk. there really is not much point in it.

except if you have ntfs partitions

then you have to delete the mfb (the boot sector) of your hard disk
make a fat32 partition.

then full format it....

then full re-format it in ntfs

then install windows 2k/XP

format.exe doesn't work with ntfs formatted hard disks

[Kinetik*]

I'm running an Edition of Windows ME, it came installed on my computer, when I got it. I've got these "System Restoration Disks", there are three of them. I'm going to try to put one in to see what happens. But I don't have another software boot disk that Didn't come with the computer, such as a bought copy of XP, 2000, etc. Thanks for the help so far, anyways. And I don't know wtf FDisk my HDD means. lol.

[Kinetik*]

Just thought I'd let you guys know that I just did everything, and so far Windows is running better than it was. I just DOwnloaded the oh-so-trusty Winamp. First thing I downloaded when I got my comp back. I love Winamp.