Trying to get rid of Windows ME to install

[RKLuchy]

Windows XP Pro. It won't format the drive properly from the CD. I have tried to reformat from a c: prompt and from a floppy with no luck. Is there a magic formula?
Thanks
R

 

[DRowland]

have you tried the fdisk command from a dos prompt?
that will format your hard drive, but be sure you have a way to get all your programming back in.

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[gpalmer711]

The following Microsoft Knoledge Base article should sort you out.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348

Greg Palmer
Free Software for Adminstrators

http://www.palmersoft.co.uk

 

[satrow]

Boot from the XP CD, choose install, when it asks where - tell it to use ME partition and format with the NTFS filesystem; that should get rid of the pesky thing for you.

Andy.

 

[RKLuchy]

The XP disk wouldn't let me format. Thank you DRowland and gpalmer711. I totally forgot about fdisk. Just goes to show how long it's been since I used that particular command.

R