Formating a drive in XP

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You can't format the volume you are using! It is like trying to change the foundations of a house while the people are living there!

And if you could then Windows would vanish at some point - as you overwrote the essential bits!

If you want to do a wipe on a windows system, boot the system from the XP disk and use the fdisk-like system at the start of the install proceedure. You don't have to do the rest of the install after you have done this.

Harry.

 

Exactly. How is the "format" program going to know how to run itself if you delete it?

 

Fake or natural blond?

 

We all have those - although in my case they are 'senior moments'.

Harry.

 

OK, I think the point has been made here, and Arroryn has already conceded to having learned from her oversight. No need to labour the point, Guys. It ain't the CF way

 

Bless ya Arroryn...guys like Jak says, she realised her mistake...we'll leave it there...glad you got it sorted darling......

 

My post was not having a go, look at the posting times, they were nearly the same, I am just slower at typing that I concurr with hbroomhall. If I can write something in its simplist terms then I will, I find that is the best way to learn (and use it when I teach).

And the natural or fake was something I ask everyone who says blond moment.

 

does anyone no how to change a computer from windows 2000 to xp

 

Please don't spray posts around the board. Start a new thread for a new subject.

Harry.