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Dell Poweredge SC420

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skywhr

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A friend of mine ordered a Dell SC420 when I ordered mine and he foolishly tried to install WIN98. Now it wont boot up into anything but safemode with no cdrom support.

How can we format the drive without a boot disk/floopy drive.

Any suggestions would be helpful. He is buying a copy of XP tomorrow.
 
hit f2 during boot up. in the bios boot options un-select hard drive boot, leave only option to boot from cd, I un-selected every boot option but the cd, then you can format hard drive during new xp install
 
The new XP CD is a boot disk...you can boot from it, basically, as previous posts described, so you don't need a seperate boot disk to reformat. Just boot up in XP, reformat to NTFS (this is the same as booting from a boot disk to reformat to NTFS, and will get rid of your 98 install) and then proceed with the install. XP will work perfectly on that system (that's what I'm running right now, same server, since November).

-Dave.
 
boot from your XP CD dude, or your 2003 Server, or your Linux distro CD

The worthless floppy will be around for a long time because of those that just can't "let it go"

Or your could have ordered the floppy option ($20) when you ordered your SC420. (by the way, my SC420 was ourdered without, and I feel that was $20 well saved) don't need no stinking floppy!
 
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