Using DOS And Ntfs For Dos To Reinstal

Feb 22, 2009

One of my computers screwed completely probably due to virus and I need to reformat. The problem is that I don't have the original xp install disk, I only have a copy of xp with dos boot, which does not allow a c: format command in dos environment hence I'm using ntfs for dos..I used to know the commands to the install/repair state this way but now I have completely forgotten.

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