I have an old pc that hasseized...sort of and i want to wipe the HD and start again. What is the proccess of reformatting. I will be using Win ME (sorry!) and i have a ME start up disc on floppy.

Cheers

Boot on the startup disc.

At the dos promt type format C:

Make sure you have all the ME discs to rebuild the PC before you start.

Also make a note of the drive that gets allocated to the disc drive, mine ended up being 'R:' not "D:" until ME had reloaded.

Regards Mark

bloomin things not booting to the dos prompt time to bin it i think ulness theres another way?

Get another cheap h/drive ???
Jason

When i turn the pc on with the disc in the floppy drive the floppy wont 'turn on' and read the info on the disc so it could be the A drive is knackered!

that sounds to me like the computer is not set to boot on the floppy drive - you will need to go in to the bios and change the boot order.

Probably to A: D: C: so it checks for the floopy, then CD, then harddisk

Go into the bios (hit del when you boot up the PC) in the advanced settings bit check that floppy is set as the first boot device.

Download this on a decent PC and run it, following the on screen prompts:
http://gtslocost.locostsites.co.uk/bd.exe

Reboot the old PC with the floppy you just created in the drive. When prompted choose start with cd-rom support.

Wait for the A: prompt to appear. Type FDISK and follow the onscreen prompts. Or you can just type FORMAT C: either will do the job.

Reboot the PC, hit del and change the forst boot device to CD-ROM.

Reboot with the windows disk in the CD drive and follow the onscreen prompts.

When the installer restarts be sure to hit del again and change the boot devices to this order: floppy, hdd, cd

Thats it.

David

Go into bios at boot up and make sure that you set the boot order to read the floppy first.
If it will then boot into DOS type
format C: /s
There is a space between the t and C and between the : and /

Sounds like a plan stan!!

Cheers chaps!