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windows will not let me format drive c
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Think you are running up against the new way to keep you from shooting yourself in the foot. Your C: is the boot drive and if you format it it won't boot.
Try it from a boot floppy.
Ed Fair
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Try it from a boot floppy.
Ed Fair
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If you're reinstalling XP - just boot from XP install CD - its got its own partitioning tools - will let you remove exisiting and create new.
Obviously you need to backup before starting this or Ed's suggesting of using a boot floppy (where you can use fdisk to remove partition - or if its fat32, just format to reformat it).
Obviously you need to backup before starting this or Ed's suggesting of using a boot floppy (where you can use fdisk to remove partition - or if its fat32, just format to reformat it).
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