Hi,

I have this problem. Im trying to format XP, and having great difficulty. If you HAVENT formatted in XP, please dont bother to reply, as formating XP is different (and more of a task) than formatting 98 and 95. Xp doesnt NOT have dos. There for you cant re start in dos and type format c:

Ive tried making a boot disk from within Xp by using the format/create boot disk function in my computer however this doesnt have the commands for format.

Does anyone know how to do it? Ive tried looking on the net but some of their descriptions are vaque as fuck.

try booting with the 2000 or XP CD. and run setup. You can either delete the partition, or re-format it. Should not be too hard

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fox

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i tried putting in the XP cd... but it re booted as normal

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Originally posted by DaveC i tried putting in the XP cd... but it re booted as normal

heh.

go to the bios and make sure "boot from cd" is the first option in the booting menu. also make sure your xp cd is *bootable*

btw... when it starts booting, it will require you to press anykey on your keyboard otherwise, it will boot from your harddrive.

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fox

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fox is right, boot from the xp cd and there you can fdisk and format

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Thanks Guys, the bios thing worked nicely

on some motherboards pressing esc or f8 brings up a "selecet device to boot from" menu to

dave - u sud have asked me in first place! :P nice to see the colours ok 2nite

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Wow this is wierd..my old threads come to life!
Btw i've much improved since that day on bios-format-reinstallXP stuff.I'd be glad if i could be of any help!

well at least it shows the search buttons geting used properley!

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reformating Xp is great if ur system is slow or full of junks. make sure u ghost it so u dont have reformat everything again.

imm going to have to reformat soon i need to return my mobo and imm goign to get a different one, just as i got it setup to how i like it

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It's always this way. As soon as you get used to the set-up,you have to format the disk
There are these winXp boot disks which will help you format the disk.
Fortunately, up to now,there was no neccesity to format my Hd,so I haven't mastered the ways.

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