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KoOs
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HOw do i get to the Dos promt on XP to format?
#1168508 - 12/24/02 06:34 PM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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HOw do i get to the Dos promt on XP to format my computer?
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luvdemshrooms
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Re: HOw do i get to the Dos promt on XP to format? [Re: KoOs]
#1168766 - 12/25/02 01:57 AM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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If you're re-installing xp....
QUICK FORMAT & RECOVERY
Set your Bios so that the first boot device is the CD-Rom Place your XP disc into the drive. Restart your computer. My computer says press any key to boot from cd. Wait for a menu. Press ?R? for Recovery Options You'll be asked which windows install you want to work on. C: should be one. Enter the #1 above the q key, not the #1 from the number pads to the right. Hit enter. You'll be asked for an admin password. If you chose to enter one during your original install enter it now. If none, hit enter. You'll get a c:\windows prompt. Type format c: and hit enter.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
Edited by luvdemshrooms (12/25/02 02:09 AM)
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Post deleted by Moe Howard [Re: KoOs]
#1169392 - 12/25/02 08:53 AM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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luvdemshrooms
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Re: HOw do i get to the Dos promt on XP to format? [Re: Macey Howard]
#1169593 - 12/25/02 10:57 AM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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XP doesn't offer boot options.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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Re: HOw do i get to the Dos promt on XP to format? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#1170184 - 12/25/02 04:22 PM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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XP uses window's own version of DOS, a cut down, lite version. It doesn't do as much as MSDOS would, and offers less options. I don't believe there is a restart in MSDOS mode on any v. of windows later than ME.
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Re: HOw do i get to the Dos promt on XP to format? [Re: TinMan]
#1170206 - 12/25/02 04:45 PM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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make a boot disk. www.bootdisk.com
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Re: HOw do i get to the Dos promt on XP to format? [Re: daussaulit]
#1171222 - 12/26/02 09:40 AM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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start run type (command) thats the XP DOs not much there but it's good for other things
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luvdemshrooms
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Re: HOw do i get to the Dos promt on XP to format? [Re: ]
#1171353 - 12/26/02 11:22 AM (21 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's not going to work because Windows will not let you format the drive that it's running on. You can only format your c drive before anything loads which is why you can't do it from the Windows dos prompt.
-------------------- You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers
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