If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Formating, need help

Gringo · 2003-04-03 16:15:55

just installed XP but i need to format my hard drive having some weird problems but cant seem to get a command promt to come up so i can format! does anybody know how i can format my drive?

03-04-2003 5:15pm

#1

Gringo

Registered Users Posts: 92 ✭✭

Join Date: February 2003

Posts: 65

just installed XP but i need to format my hard drive having some weird problems but cant seem to get a command promt to come up so i can format! does anybody know how i can format my drive?

0

Comments

#2 03-04-2003 5:24pm

unkel

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65,642 ✭✭✭✭

Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!

Join Date: November 2001

Posts: 64372

Boot from xp cdrom, follow instructions. When prompted to choose partition to install, delete all available partitions. Then select the unformatted area and click install. XP will then ask you to format it in the file system of your choice (I'd recommend NTFS)

My ads on adverts.ie
https://www.adverts.ie/member/5856/ads

0