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Old 01-10-2005, 04:00 AM   #1 (permalink)
 
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can anyone teach me how to format my computer?
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Old 01-10-2005, 01:33 PM   #2 (permalink)
 
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If you want to format everything and reinstall your OS, just boot from the OS disk. You'll have the option to format durring the installation.

If you just want to format a single drive or diskette open up your command line (I'm assuming you're on XP...or atleast that's the OS I'm using now). Type:

format [drive] /FS:NTFS

where [drive] is the drive you want to format and the filesystem is NTFS (you don't have to specify a filesystem).
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Old 01-10-2005, 01:35 PM   #3 (permalink)
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You cannot format a floppydisk using NTFS filesystem. The master file table will be 4MB and wouldn't fit.
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I was talking about a harddrive....I guess I was assuming he knew for a diskette you can't do that.
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