I'm running Win Xp and want to format my drive..HOW?

[Magnakai]

used to be easy in 98. you make a boot disk, and format c:. Now i made a boot disk for Xp, but lo and behold there's no option to format. I type format c: and says bad command.

So i tried using my win 98 cd and it said the drive is ntfs and not fat 32 so it couldn;t do anything.

OK so...how the heck to I wipe out my hard drive? Ihave win xp on ntfs..I want it wiped out and i want to install 98se on fat32 (of course)

 

[IgoByte]

You will need the Windows XP CD. Insert the CD, boot up your computer as if you were about to install it (EDIT: Windows XP) and then during the initial stage of the installation process wipe your drive.

This is the case if you're talking about the C: partition, on which you already have Windows XP installed. If you have XP on C: and would like to format D: or E:, for instance, it can be done from within Windows, similarly to Windows 98.

 

[geoff2k]

Boot your win98 floppy, run FDISK, delete the NTFS partition, then run the win98 install.

 

[IgoByte]

Originally posted by: geoff2k
Boot your win98 floppy, run FDISK, delete the NTFS partition, then run the win98 install.

Oh, I just realized you wanted to install Windows 98. Why would you want Windows 98 anyway?
geoff is right...