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    Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

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    by charliec ·

    I have the need for a utility program that will allow me to boot my laptop top from a CD and format the hard drive. That function is not available on the recovery CD’s supplied by the manufacturer.

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    • #2675769

      Reply To: Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

      by fred07 ·

      In reply to Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

      Hi

      Assuming no floppy is available

      You will have to make a bootable cd with a sys boot disk on it

      fred

    • #2686087

      Reply To: Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

      by angsys ·

      In reply to Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

      I have a Floppy that can do the job also install any type of Cd-Rom what will make life easier
      But before you do that pls advice what type (model) of Laptop you have so i can try to support on a different way
      pls send the aswer to ossy@snet.co.ao since the mail describe above is not running yet
      tks
      ear

    • #3370455

      Reply To: Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

      by wlbowers ·

      In reply to Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

      Boot floppies are avaible for download from many sites. The 98 os comes with one. Win 2000 and Xp cd has a utility on the cd that will create them.

      Lee

      • #2689436

        Reply To: Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

        by wlbowers ·

        In reply to Reply To: Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

        Check your bios to see if the unit can boot from a cd. If that is an option set the boot order for floppy, cd, hd.

        It will then give you a message to press any key to boot from a cd.

        Lee

    • #2688571

      Reply To: Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

      by mihkel183 ·

      In reply to Formatting the hard drive on my Laptop

      hi
      you can simply use some os like win2000 or win98 boot cd-s.they have that kind of option

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