How to format a drive with NTFS WITHOUT the WinXP cd?

[Panzerknacker]

Is there a way to do this? Some kind of application on a floppy? The Win98 boot disk does not support ntfs. Don't ask why I don't use the XP cd because that's no possibility in this case.

 

[dark_15]

take a look at this:

http://www.mcpmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=643

 

[Xaotic]

The easiest way is to connect the drive to a system running 2000/XP/2003 and use Disk Management to format the drive.

The above method would work if you wanted to convert the drive, but requires the XP/2003 OS to be installed.

Later versions of Partition Magic and other disk partitioning utilities can do this from a floppy.

This one might be able to run formats from the demo, but no guarantee. PM's demo is read only and will not write to the drive.

 

[Panzerknacker]

thanks for the link, but unfortunately it's not what I need. The drive I want to format is already using the NTFS file system. I don't need to partition it or whatever, I just need to format it. I was wondering if there are any utilities out there that allow this from a DOS environment (bootable floppy or something).

 

[Panzerknacker]

Ok cool, I'm going to try PM! Thanks.

 

[Xaotic]

I got interrupted in posting and thought I had included this link to 7tools:

http://7tools.de/pm/demo.htm

It's the one that may format.