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May 26, 2007 at 03:07 AM
jhkier

Cannot format HD

by jhkier . Updated 19 years, 1 month ago

Hi,

I have been having some major Hardware issues recently –

Firstly, I keep getting setupdd.sys error code 4 during setup. It has taken me a while to work out that the issue is the actual HD – i feel formatting will resolve (still not sure why this problem occured, I am beginning to have doubts about my mobo as a few Hd’s seem to be acting strange).

Now, because i cannot run setup I cannot format. And because its NTFS i cannot fdisk.

I have found a program called delpart which suggests it would allow me to format the HD. I cannot seem to make it work .

Can someone please give me some guidance of how to format a ntfs drive without setup? delpart will probably work, but my DOS skill are obviously void.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

G

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