How to reformat HD using DOS with Win2000?

[SuperJudge_XIII]

I would like to reformat my HD so I can reinstall win2000.

[KWB Teck]

What type partitions are on the drive Fat, NTFS?
Does your system support booting from CD?

[Gabriel]

if you have Patient Use FDISK (Legal offcourse) - Delete all Existing Partitions (assuming the data is Irrelelven or Backed up) and install win2000 from clean

Else if you have some money and want to live like King Purchase and Run Power Quest's Partition Magic.

[Technichian]

Originally posted by SuperJudge_XIII:
<STRONG>I would like to reformat my HD so I can reinstall win2000.</STRONG>


If reinstalling win2000 is all that you require. You can format the HD from with in the setup of Win2000 . At the time of installation ,it will ask for where & which partition to install . Then you can choose the partition and the setup program will ask you if you would like to keep the File system intact or recreate the Filesystem. Recreating the filesystem just formats the HD also.
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[AlienDyne]

Use a common Win98 bootable disk and boot the machine using this disk.
Remove all partitions using fdisk and then create one. Format if and then you can install Win2K.

[Danger]

I_love_my_PC is right, you can format after you start the install, and do it right from the disk.

Of course if your computer can't boot to a cd you may need a 98 boot disk to get the cdrom going.

[itsmewhoelse]

or...you can copy Win2K to a folder on your HD and install from there, just like Win9x, much faster.

itsmewhoelse

[Sowulo]

Originally posted by I_love_my_PC:
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If reinstalling win2000 is all that you require. You can format the HD from with in the setup of Win2000 . At the time of installation ,it will ask for where & which partition to install . Then you can choose the partition and the setup program will ask you if you would like to keep the File system intact or recreate the Filesystem. Recreating the filesystem just formats the HD also.
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And of course at the same time you can choose to delete any partition(s) that are already on the drive and really start clean...

[sdrawkcab]

Originally posted by itsmewhoelse:
<STRONG>or...you can copy Win2K to a folder on your HD and install from there, just like Win9x, much faster.

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This works great with Win31/9X but with NT4/2K it takes as long to copy the files from CDROM to HD as it does to just install the OS from the CD.

[SubZero]

Also, you can just let the Win2k Install format to either NTFS or FAT32.

[Twisted_Mister]

Originally posted by sdrawkcab:
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This works great with Win31/9X but with NT4/2K it takes as long to copy the files from CDROM to HD as it does to just install the OS from the CD.</STRONG>


I agree completely - it is a waste of time with win2k - it copies all of the files it needs anyway - copying the disk is redundant.