Help with formatting my hard drive

Can someone help me please I am using Windows XP and I lost my installation CD's Is there any way to reformat my hard drive with out using the CD? Thank you for your help...




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#179750 - 04/01/08 01:56 AM Help with formatting my hard drive
JoeDaddy Offline
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Can someone help me please
I am using Windows XP and I lost my installation CD's Is there any way to reformat my hard drive with out using the CD?

Thank you for your help
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#179751 - 04/01/08 03:23 AM Re: Help with formatting my hard drive
DosFreak Offline
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You can format it all you want but you'll need an OS to put on it.

Contact the manufacturer of your computer for a replacement XP CD.

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#179752 - 04/01/08 12:13 PM Re: Help with formatting my hard drive
JoeDaddy Offline
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Registered: 04/01/08
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I'm sorry i wasent clear on my post. I have Windows 98 to install but I cant seem to reformat the hard drive that allready has Windows xp installed on it and I dont have the XP installation disk
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#179753 - 04/01/08 12:32 PM Re: Help with formatting my hard drive
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Just use the boot disk, run fdisk, and delete the "non-MS" partition.

or download the DOS Ultimate Boot CD which has plenty of format/partitioning tools on it.

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