I need to re-format my hard drive. I cannot do it throught the MS-DOS prompt in Windows XP Home Edition due to the File Structure on the hard drive. Is there any way to bypass the Windows boot and go directly to a MS-DOS prompt on start-up?
View 4 RepliesI need to get my HDD reformatted with the help of a paid technician.Couple of weeks ago he used the quick format method & asked him if that would make any difference & he said really not.I have the doubts though. I kind of wonder why would Windows then give a choice if there really wasn’t any difference?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI want to FDisk or Format my hard drive. When I open the Command Prompt (W2K), and enter FDisk (from the root, C:), it doesn't recognize that command. When I try "Format C:" and then provide the Volume Label, it says: Volume in use by another process. Format may run if this volume is dismounted first. ... Would you like to force a dismount on this volume?" I answer Y, but then get: "Cannot lock the drive. The volume is still in use." What can I do to "unuse" the volume?
View 11 Replies View Relatedi have a primary hard drive working fine and added another hard drive 80gig maxtor as a slave and i'm using win xp pro.
i know there's computer management menu here in winxp, my question is:on how to format then partition my second hd,into 2(40 gig and 40 gig).basically i need the correct steps or commands.
I am officially past aggravated. I needed to reformat an internal hard drive on a Gateway Laptop 7322GZ, 60GB drive. I am using a Windows XP Pro Upgrade CD (along with a full version of Windows 98SE for verification) and I deleted all partitions and set it to format the entire disk. Did not select quick format NTFS, just regular Format NTFS..
View 8 Replies View RelatedAm trying to do new installation (clean install) of windows xp pro and cant seem to get the option of formatting the drive.All it seems to do is rewrite over the previous installations(even though I choose new installation option).Since trying to reinstall I also keep getting the error "cant find c:windowssystem32oolsdelfolders.exe." It doesnt seem to be causing any problems as such as I can still use my computer but I would really like to format and get rid of any crap.Any ideas?Also clicking on C
View 5 Replies View Relatedhow to reformat my hard drive? I'm trying to load XP Pro but when I put the disc in it tells me that the version on my computer is newer than the one I'm trying to put in so it can't install it. So how do I format from XP Home edition?
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View 4 Replies View Relatedi have a system that is running xp and i need to format the hard drive due to a new mobo. in the past i have tried and i ran into a problem that you already have an os installed. what is the best way to format in xp?
View 20 Replies View RelatedI'm having problems formatting a hdd to install Winxp. A friend gave me his old HP 743a comp (2.4 Ghz, 512 mb ram) because the monitor kept going black. I am fairly sure the problem was one of the CPU heatsink clips was broken and not allowing contact between heatsink and cpu. It doesn't go black now that I have fixed the clip. He removed his HDD, so I bought a second hand 10 Gb just to see if I could get the thing running. I formatted the HDD with a win98se boot disk. Everything goes well except I can't get the "start with cdrom support" page to come up. The Cd drive is a CD-RW/DVD combo drive (32 x 10 x 12 x 40x). Sorry I can't find the brand and model number at the moment. I did check up on it a week ago and it's only supported by win2000 and winxp. I was wondering if this could be the problem?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm unable to format my C: drive after erasing it.I have a Dell XPS 2 with two 250GB hard drives. (Other specs are listed below.) I got it in 2003, I think. I want to sell it, so in preparation, I tried to clean and format the hard drives. I used Darik's Boot and Nuke to do the job. The cleaning went fine until the end, when I got a message saying the process was complete but there had been some non-fatal errors because of some bad sectors.I couldn't boot up the computer afterward, of course, because I forgot to make a boot up disk. I tried using the Windows XP installation CD, but all I got when restarting the computer was a "press F1 to retry, F2 to setup" message. I can enter the BIOS, and I put the CD-player at the top of the boot disk, but no good.Anyway, I got a boot disk and can now get to the A: prompt. I used FDISK to create 1 FAT32 primary DOS partition on each hard drive. After restarting, I then tried FORMAT, but after hitting "Y", I got this message: "Fatal error writing setting disk access flags...format terminated. Error Code: 05". I did a google search and found that other people have encountered that message, but unfortunately I didn't understand any of the details...
Also, after partitioning the hard drives, I now get this message when trying to boot from the CD (or just from the hard drive): "partition signature != 55AA".So, I'm at a loss. Because I don't have convenient access to a floppy drive, and because I'm not sure my CD drive is working correctly, I'm hoping someone might be able to suggest a solution that involves use of a USB flash drive. A google search showed me that such things were possible, but the solutions were a little beyond my tech skills.The only other piece of info I can offer is that attempting to DIR the C: drive gives me an "invalid media" message.
I just put together a desktop with an Asus A7V880 mobo and after I installed XP on my Seagate SATA Baracuda 7200.1 120Gb harddrive I was running windows and it shutdown and said it had to shutdown to protect my computer and now I think there is some corrupt data onit that will not delete off the hard drive.I have tried many many differe nt things to delete the drive so I can reinstall windows onit.It shows up in my computer in the bios but not in windows windows and will not format either.I just bought a seagate 40Gb hardrive just like it for the computer also I have installed windows onit and it runs good ,but it sometimes tells me it has to studown to protect computer to but it will still reboot.I have ran Seatools on the hard drive and it finds errors on the drive and ask me if I want to repair them and I do and it shows them as repaired.It says passed after repair right,then I try to rescan it again to see if it fixed them ,but it the errors still show up again just like the first seatools scan.I have just about ran out of options on how to delete the hard drive.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a gateway running windows xp. I had a virus and ran mcafee. It told me to reboot so I did and now nothing happens. hte gateway screen comes up and nothing after that it just stays on the gateway screen. I can't enter safe mode and it will not read my recovery disk. I called gateway and they told me that because my computer is out of the warranty, they would be happy to help me and then gave me three payment options. I have come to grips that I will need to format the hard drive, but I just don't know how to get it to that point. the only thing that happens is the gateway screen and the fan runs really loud.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI want to remove windows xp home off my laptop, I had to install a new hard drive and when I installed windows xp I found out I didn't have the drivers disk so nothing works. I went to Dell site to get drivers and there are hundreds of them, the ones I did download wont work. So I want to reformat my harddrive and go back to ME. but I can't. What can I use to FORMAT this hard drive?
View 5 Replies View Relatedmy computer is running slow, i can recieve email but not send, i cant restore back to another date so im told by bt and others to format my hard drive any tips as boyfriends says it has to go back to shop to do that.
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow can I format my hard drive ( wiping out all datas ) ? I have Windows XP installed.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWithout going into too much detail. My hard drive has XP O/S on it. All I want to do is to format it. NTFS. So I have a clean hard drive with no operating system on it. How can
I do it?
I am trying to format my hard drive, it is already converted to NTFS but I cam getting the error message cannot format drive e (my drive letter)I have ran CHKDSK and it is saying unable to perform scan on RAW drives
View 6 Replies View RelatedMy son has a Dell desktop 2.66 ghz. It has XP home on it. I have reinstalled XP twice but it does not come up to reformat the hard drive. At the partition stage it says nothing about formatting. I cannot delete the main partition. How can I format the harddrive? I am using the Dell version of XP that came with the computer
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to format my hard drive to install windows XP pro,I currently am running windows XP pro.The problem is I can't format, when I try to format with a fdisk I get an error saying:"Your program caused a divide overflow error.If the problem persists, contact your program vendor."I also use windows XP CD and the problem with that is when it gets to the blue screen of windows setup it freezes.Anyone have any idea how to solve it and get my hard drive formatted.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to format my hard drive by booting up using a windows xp disc, and entering the recovery console. After the drivers and such have loaded up and I enter the recovery console, I type format c:, it asks me for confirmation and I type yes. When I press enter, the screen looks as though it is loading for a second but then just returns to the recovery console without having done anything. I try typing the command in again and again nothing happens. When I reboot the computer, my hard drive has not been formatted.How can I get the recovery console to actually format my hard drive?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have caught a virus and my computer constantly freezes!! I have lost my windows XP CD but is there anyway I can delete everything but what came with windows?
View 4 Replies View Relatedi want to format my hard drive , i do have dell inspiron 1150 laptop
View 6 Replies View RelatedI basically know how to format my hard drive. I boot with my Xp CD and go through all the steps, till I reach the licensing agreement. It asks me to hit F8 to agree, nothing happens.
OS - Windows XP SP2
I've been trying to reformat the drive and reinstall windows xp. I've done everything. The original problem was as follows: i rebooted with the cd and chose install xp (option 1.) Then it displays all of the available drives to format and install. Only my external hard drive (maxtor onetouch 300gb) was being displayed. I scrolled down but there were no more, and when I hit the up key i get a blue screen of death (with no error, message only "stop 000x00 or whatever
View 10 Replies View RelatedEvery time I try to install Windows XP from the CD onto my friend's computer, I get to the blue screen where you're able to format/partition the hard drive and then his keyboard stops working. I don't know how to get around this because I can't continue the installation w/o the use of the keyboard. Unfortunatly, he has Windows ME on his computer right now so this issue needs to be resolved.
View 6 Replies View RelatedFormat hard drive - Dont want to do this Change date - Tried, doesn't wor Buy it - Contact manufacturer - Will have to do this.i dont really want to spend $20 for a program im planning to use for 1 minute. it was a 48hr trial andi installed it before i needed to use
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