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Nugjar Lives!
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Joined: 05 Nov 2002
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 Posted: 10/01/04 - 13:10 Post subject: formatting c:
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Well I saved everything I could think of offa my machine, and now I want to wipe the drive and registry, and reinstall Windows XP pro.
So I go to right click on the C: drive, and choose format, but it keeps saying that something is running and using the C: drive, so it can't start the formatting. I turned off everything I can think of, and can't get it to start. What is the easiest way to accomplish formatting the drive, wiping the registry, and reinstalling XP Pro?
I'm new to this, so I'm not sure what I'm doing. Can I just go to the run command line and type format c I want to make sure it reformats using the right file structure, etc, and need the registry clean so I can reinstall some warez software...
Thanks in advance,
~Nug
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Tolanin
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Joined: 16 Oct 2002
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Posted: 10/01/04 - 13:14 Post subject: Re: formatting c:
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| Nugjar Lives! wrote: | Well I saved everything I could think of offa my machine, and now I want to wipe the drive and registry, and reinstall Windows XP pro.
So I go to right click on the C: drive, and choose format, but it keeps saying that something is running and using the C: drive, so it can't start the formatting. I turned off everything I can think of, and can't get it to start. What is the easiest way to accomplish formatting the drive, wiping the registry, and reinstalling XP Pro?
I'm new to this, so I'm not sure what I'm doing. Can I just go to the run command line and type format c I want to make sure it reformats using the right file structure, etc, and need the registry clean so I can reinstall some warez software...
Thanks in advance,
~Nug |
ms actually did a decent job of making this easy, you cant format from in windows because obviously windows is using the c drive and it cant run a program to kill itself!
Put in your xp pro cd, choose the installation, it will give you the option to format the drive at this point (it will tell you to restart and then bring you to a bios like screen where you can do it anyway) once you format windows will keep right on going with the install, pretty painless actually..
oh and use NTFS as your file system on the format unless you really know what your doing and want something else.
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kayzar
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Joined: 05 Nov 2002
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Posted: 10/01/04 - 13:22 Post subject:
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Well, you could do a couple ways. First way is get into your BIOS and make it so that your cd rom is checked for the boot volume. It'll then ask if you want to boot from the cd. Choose yes and from there its pretty self explanatory.
The other way is to make a boot disk from floppies. I've never done this with XP but I've heard you have to have 6 floppies, I could be wrong on that though.
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euphonious
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Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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Posted: 10/01/04 - 13:54 Post subject:
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| kayzar wrote: | Well, you could do a couple ways. First way is get into your BIOS and make it so that your cd rom is checked for the boot volume. It'll then ask if you want to boot from the cd. Choose yes and from there its pretty self explanatory.
The other way is to make a boot disk from floppies. I've never done this with XP but I've heard you have to have 6 floppies, I could be wrong on that though. |
6 floppies? Jesus Christ, I haven't seen a floppy for about two years now.
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Owyyn
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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Posted: 10/01/04 - 14:03 Post subject:
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Why would you need 6 floppies? All the floppy is for is to load CD drivers.
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myndwarrp
Can't Stop Posting
Joined: 27 Jan 2004
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Posted: 10/01/04 - 14:45 Post subject:
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I've done this several times over the lastr year, and I use a 98 boot disk. Boot from floppy, then format C:. If your XP disk is bootable, you wont have to do this. Just boot from CD, format, and go from there.
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Tolanin
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Joined: 16 Oct 2002
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Posted: 10/01/04 - 15:08 Post subject:
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most newer machines should be able to boot from cd
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Meeatsu
Sir Postalot
Joined: 10 Nov 2002
Posts: 1083
Location: St. Louis, Mo
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Posted: 10/01/04 - 15:10 Post subject:
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Usually you get a harddrive bootup disk (well alteast Maxtor drives come with this, I think WD has it aswell. If you bought OEM you can get these off their websites) with your harddrive, you can use that to reformat aswell. This way of reformating is usually much cleaner and faster if you use the specific shit that comes with your harddrive over the WindowsXP install format thingi.
Put disk in reboot (make sure floppy is the boot drive in your bios) Little screen boots up with lots of options such as partitioning, file systems and and reformating! Yay simple, and faster then m$ b******t.
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Jakanden
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 11 Nov 2003
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Location: Fuck if I know - I am always lost
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Posted: 10/01/04 - 15:19 Post subject:
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| euphonious wrote: | | kayzar wrote: | Well, you could do a couple ways. First way is get into your BIOS and make it so that your cd rom is checked for the boot volume. It'll then ask if you want to boot from the cd. Choose yes and from there its pretty self explanatory.
The other way is to make a boot disk from floppies. I've never done this with XP but I've heard you have to have 6 floppies, I could be wrong on that though. |
6 floppies? Jesus Christ, I haven't seen a floppy for about two years now. |
Ive got a 3.5 Drive, a 5.25 Drive and one of these on my machine heh.
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myndwarrp
Can't Stop Posting
Joined: 27 Jan 2004
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Posted: 10/01/04 - 15:21 Post subject:
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| Quote: | | most newer machines should be able to boot from cd |
Yes, true, but not all CD's are bootable. I have a corp copy that isnt.
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Overon
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Posted: 10/01/04 - 16:36 Post subject:
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lol
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