HELP REFORMAT HD! DOS COMMANDS

[danny2543]

Hey guys, Every time I turn on my computer something happenes and it ends up crashing, like right when it starts andything that I do it gets upset and crashes, so Im gunna format the hard drive but i dont know ANYTHING about ms-dos. When I reformat the HD and I insert the win xp cd and im in dos, what is to command that i have to enter so that dos starts to install windows.... I got the comp in 99' or 00' just incase that has anything to do with the version of DOS that I have, but i dont know if that makes a difference,... thanks!

[John Prophet]

If you boot off of the WinXP disk you DONT have to reformat the drive ahead of time etc..or use any special commands because as part of the install you can tell it to format.

You boot from the cd....choose install..it will search yur drive and find your partition....you choose that partition..it gives a warning about another OS already being on that partition..you choose it anyway..then you choose to format that partition.

JP

[VHockey86]

well incase you do want to know the command, even tho you dont really need it. all you do is type

"format c:"
C: being the partition

If you want to do a "quick" format, where it just formats the allocation tables and not the whole drive, then you just type "format c: /q /u"

[John Prophet]

hehe, we definitely need a "sticky" or links to articles having step by step for this...seems I typed the same instructions 5 times today.

JP