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re: FormaTting (Two T's)
Monday, October 12, 2009 at 12:08 am
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Posted by Kiwi (2208 messages posted)


No Windows will commit suicide. You cannot format XP from within itself, it will refuse. I keep a partly assembled system/ chassis in my shop to attach drives to for assorted setup, and just plug them in as slaves, in which status you can do whatever you want with them format-wise.

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Kiwi

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On Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 8:26 am, rwagner118 wrote:
>Please F8 on boot to access the safe mode menu. Select the option "Safe mode with
>command prompt". When you see the command prompt, type "format c:\" w/o quote
>marks and press enter. You should then be able to format your hard drive.
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Written in response to:
re: Formating (rwagner118: Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 8:26 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: FormaTting (Two T's) (Keith Stanier: Monday, October 12, 2009 at 2:03 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Formating (Jim: Wed, Aug 5, 2009, 4:46 pm)
*re: Formating (Keith Stanier: Thu, Aug 6, 2009, 2:24 am)
*re: Formating (KeithT: Thu, Aug 6, 2009, 10:15 am)
-re: Formating (rwagner118: Sat, Aug 15, 2009, 8:26 am)
-re: FormaTting (Two T's) (Kiwi: Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 12:08 am)
-re: FormaTting (Two T's) (Keith Stanier: Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 2:03 pm)
*re: FormaTting (Two T's) (Kiwi: Tue, Oct 13, 2009, 5:38 am)
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