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lammer
09-28-2003, 12:01 AM
I am trying to format my computer. i have windows XP Home edition. i can't seem to format this piece of junk..

anyone have any idea on how i format it???

Zephyr
09-28-2003, 12:14 AM
a hammer and some fire?

doesnt xp have a boot disk so u can format through there? i relaly dunno i rarely use xp...

Shaolin
09-28-2003, 12:18 AM
i've always dropped to dos and just formatted from dos.. :dunno:

lammer
09-28-2003, 12:18 AM
Originally posted by Shaolin
i've always dropped to dos and just formatted from dos.. :dunno:


i am in dos it says system partition is not allowed to be formatted.

roopi
09-28-2003, 12:54 AM
go into the bios and change it so it boots from the cd-rom. put the xp disk in the drive and restart the computer.

kaput
09-28-2003, 12:58 AM
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lammer
09-28-2003, 01:12 AM
Originally posted by kaput
If you have XP, it is painfully simple. Just put in the CD and follow the directions. The only snafu is if your boot sequence bypasses the CD ROM in which case you need to go into the bios and change that. I can't really talk you through the bios, but you should look for something like boot order or sequence or something like that and set it so that the CD is ahead of the HDD.


foudn it and all done.