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Re: Problem formatting HD
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Rick Dempsey #3 <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:17:33 -0700
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Kevin Nowicki wrote:
>I received the box with the HD already wiped clean.  Fdisk showed no
partitions.
>How would I go about formatting HD?

the startup disk will let you get to DOS right?  find out the letter of the
drive you want to format (in your case probably C:) and type:

format C:

hit "Y" to say yes you want to format.

no fdisk this or fdisk that, pretty simple if ya ask me :)

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