How to format a hard drive

[Fina Junkie]

I need to format a hard drive with win98 OS.

i've already ran fdisk and i'm at the A prompt but i don't know what to do from there.

I thought Format c: was the command but it isn't

help

 

[Delinquent]

type dir /p to make sure that the format command is on the floppy assuming it's a win98 boot disk

EDIT: It's been a while since win98 but since fdisk is on there, I'd assum format was also. You should be able to type in c: to go to your c drive. Then type format c:...I think

 

[Fina Junkie]

yep , i'm a dumbass

for some reason i thought i could use the win98 cd instread of a floppy to format the drive. didn't think about not having any drivers for the cd rom.

anyway around this ? how can a make a startup disk ?

 

[RaZor Ramon]

It's been a while since I used windows 98 but I'm pretty sure you can format a hard drive with the windows 98 disc. I know you can with the windows xp disc. Set your computer to boot from the CD-Rom first in the bios. It should ask you if you want to install when you boot off the CD and ask do you want to update or do a fresh install. If you do a fresh install your hard drive will have to be format first. Mind you it will be FAT32 and not NTFS with is the better of an HD being format today.

 

[Buddy_Christ]

quickest and easiest way....

open up the computer, remove the hard drive. take a very strong magnet, like one off of the back of a speaker, not one of those pansy ass refrigerator magnets, and run it all over the hard drive for about 10 minutes.