Need help with reformatting

[Dead Metal]

In the pat i used to use a floppy drive with a 98 boot disk to do my formatting but now i dont want to use a floppy any more to reformat and im curious, what are my options?

Im running XP pro on a 766mhz HP if that info is needed at all

Thanks for the help

[bombledmonk]

are you formatting the C: drive(system disk?)? If so just pop in the XP CD and you can do it in the setup process.

If you are talking about other drives, just right click on them when you are in windows and a pick the format option.

[Dead Metal]

yea im goin to do my C: drive. Its starting to mess up and it just needs it

[sechs]

You can also do this in the recovery console with the diskpart command.

[Dead Metal]

how do you do that?

[Starfury_2260]

reboot and start pressing f8 i think till the startup options screen comes up then choose recovery console
(correct?)

[sechs]

When you boot to the install CD, there is an option to run the recovery console.

[Dead Metal]

tried the F8 thing and it didnt have anything there i could use, i tried booting right to my XP cd and it didnt work, it just boot to my HDD, Yes i changed the boot sequence to boot from CDrom but it didnt

[roley]

I suppose if you had emulation you could run a floppy based utility like Paragon off a CD...

Many new cheaper systems are now being built without floppies...so we're gonna have to work out ways to do it using new tools...or non floppy tools anyway...

Apple has excluded floppies for a long time...

The day is coming.

Unless you have an old drive that you're worried about always try to use the /q command in 'format c: /q' to do it fast.

I don't know what the recovery console one is as I use Paragon for all my stuff now...it is a brilliant utility.

Roley
Black Frog Technologies