how to reformat a HDD

ijust need to know waht you do before you type in fdisk in dos, i know it involves a floppy but i forget what kind.

i remeber the rest but i havn't done it in like 8 months or so. thankd for your help!!!!~RCTG

i need to know this also...

bill gates says i have to activate my copy of windows in 29 days, but i cant talk about that here...

this would be a useful utility, i think ive got a useful article

If its win98 you stick in your start up disk(floppy) and then fdisk after it goes through everything! Then you can formatt it and that! And if you don't want to activate you copy of windows burn it in a fire and get linux!

I need to know how to make a start-up disk.Thanks~RCTG~

What OS are you using?

I am using 98 SE.Thanks!~RCTG

To create a Dos-Boot disk you just:

1. Go into Windows Explorer
2. Put a blank disk in the drive
3. Right click on A:
4. Choose Format
5. Then there should be an option to create a start up disk

This one is from the Windoz site...

Click Start
Point to Settings and click Control Panel
Click Add/Remove Programs
Click the Startup Disk tab
Click the Create Disk button
When finished, click OK to exit the Add/Remove Programs Properties dialog box

This however is not the best start up, give me a few minutes and I will see if I can find you some linkage...

Linkage:

http://www.putergeek.com/win98_boot/

There are a few more files that are useful on your boot disk as well as the generic CD rom driver for dos. Hope this helps, good luck.

the format command at dos is either

format c: <--- not bootable
format c:/s <---this makes the system bootable after a restart