donut
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| posted on 5/2/06 at 03:06 PM |
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How do you reformat a hard drive?
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
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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mark chandler
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| posted on 5/2/06 at 03:17 PM |
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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
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donut
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| posted on 5/2/06 at 09:11 PM |
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bloomin things not booting to the dos prompt  time to bin it i think ulness theres another way?
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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Deckman001
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| posted on 5/2/06 at 09:17 PM |
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Get another cheap h/drive ???
Jason
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donut
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| posted on 5/2/06 at 09:26 PM |
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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!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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Project7
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| posted on 5/2/06 at 09:36 PM |
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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
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flak monkey
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| posted on 5/2/06 at 09:38 PM |
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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 
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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Dusty
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| posted on 5/2/06 at 09:44 PM |
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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 /
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donut
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| posted on 5/2/06 at 09:57 PM |
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Sounds like a plan stan!!
Cheers chaps!
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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