Reformatting Hard Drive of 2000 System

sleemie · 03-18-2003, 09:06 AM

How do your reformat the hard drive on a system running 2000? You can't simply boot to a DOS prompt from a 98 startup disk and and format.

**Pseudocyber** · 03-18-2003, 09:24 AM

Why not? Put Fdisk and Format on your boot disk and you're good to go. Fdisk it first.

Drifters · 03-18-2003, 10:33 AM

I agree with Psuedocyber...:D

tcheavey · 03-19-2003, 07:32 PM

Hacked the admin P-word and now yer wiping out his hard drive, mean dude. :bandit:

Stanza · 04-07-2003, 05:44 AM

You can just boot from your Windows 2000 cd and then choose Format hard drive from the list of options during the setup stage of Windows 2000.

**johnwill** · 04-07-2003, 07:30 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sleemie
How do your reformat the hard drive on a system running 2000? You can't simply boot to a DOS prompt from a 98 startup disk and and format.

Sure you can! You need to FDISK first and kill off the NTFS partition.

03-18-2003, 09:06 AM	#1 (permalink)
sleemie Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Virginia Posts: 156 OS: Windows XP	Reformatting Hard Drive of 2000 System How do your reformat the hard drive on a system running 2000? You can't simply boot to a DOS prompt from a 98 startup disk and and format.

03-18-2003, 09:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
Pseudocyber NetEngr/Geek Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Earth\US\NC\Charlotte Posts: 1,394 OS: Win2K	Why not? Put Fdisk and Format on your boot disk and you're good to go. Fdisk it first. __________________ AM = :coffee: PM = :cheers: CCNA, NNCSSx2, MCSE (NT), A+, CNA

03-18-2003, 10:33 AM	#3 (permalink)
Drifters Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 283 OS: win 2000	I agree with Psuedocyber...:D __________________ Drifters For Life

03-19-2003, 07:32 PM	#4 (permalink)
tcheavey Mech-Tech Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Oakland/Berkley approx. Posts: 289 OS: Win 2K	Hacked the admin P-word and now yer wiping out his hard drive, mean dude. :bandit: __________________ The Redskins Lost. Go Black Knights!!!!

04-07-2003, 05:44 AM	#5 (permalink)
Stanza Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 55 OS: Windows XP SP2	You can just boot from your Windows 2000 cd and then choose Format hard drive from the list of options during the setup stage of Windows 2000.