Is there any alternative of re-format?

yn

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I want to wipe whole c drive and reinstall win me but do not want to re-format my hard drive. Is this possible? Is there any alternative of re-format?

 

Malak

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How do you plan to wipe it out without formatting? That's how you wipe it out.

And before you do that, I'd suggest finding a different OS. Windows ME sucked big time, I'd rather use 98.
 

Nothinman

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If you really want you could just delete the windows and program files directories, that'll kill 99% of what Windows puts on a machine.
 

GreyMittens

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I am just curious as to what your objection with reformatting is? Especially if you are willing and planning on losing everything on the drive as it is.

If you are unwilling to format the drive, you could boot from a dos disk or something and go to each and every folder.

cd windows
del *.*
cd system32
del *.*
cd..
cd fonts
del *.*
cd drivers
de *.*
etc. etc.

A great way to spend the weekend. Just reformat ffs :)

edit: because I know somebody will eventually post this - yes, I know deltree could be used much quicker but i was making a point <g>