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sorienor

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How Do I Reformat An Unlocked Hard Drive?
« on: June 02, 2003, 12:51:00 AM »
You need to delete the existing partition, and then re-create using a valid windows file system before you can format it.  Failing this, get the diag disk from the maker of the drive and do a write zeros to drive.
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How Do I Reformat An Unlocked Hard Drive?
« Reply #1 on: June 02, 2003, 05:24:00 AM »
laugh.gif  Copy Fdisk.exe onto a floppy...

Restart into dos mode on that computer
Type in FDISK

then press y when it asks u if u want to . Then press 4 to view the partitions
, then u should see a partition that is non-dos ..delete it by pressing esc , then pressing 3 in the main menu , then press 4 NON-DOS delete...once it deletes it go to Create primary partition by perssing 1 , and ur  basically done...Nothing else is to it
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How Do I Reformat An Unlocked Hard Drive?
« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2003, 05:25:00 AM »
oh and uhhhh if u got a windows xp disk ur pretty freaking stupid because windows xp can delete and create partitions in its setup... if u boot off of the disk
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