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Formatting Hard Drive

sham69 · 2007-02-19 11:24:54

Hi, Should be a simple enough answer to this ( I hope) I am trying to format my hard drive in my dell dimension desktop running XP but I don't have a floppy drive? Any ideas, I was looking for a boot cd but couldnt find a good one plus when I tried a fresh install of XP the old one was still there. Any advice appreciated.…

19-02-2007 11:24am

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sham69

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Hi,
Should be a simple enough answer to this ( I hope) I am trying to format my hard drive in my dell dimension desktop running XP but I don't have a floppy drive? Any ideas, I was looking for a boot cd but couldnt find a good one plus when I tried a fresh install of XP the old one was still there.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Sham.

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#2 19-02-2007 11:29am

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The GParted Live CD will allow you to format your disk.

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#3 19-02-2007 11:36am

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Thanks Aidan I will give it a go.
Sham.

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#4 19-02-2007 11:52am

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Just to say, if you wish to securely erase a HD, Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN"), installs to a USB stick with just a click.

http://dban.sourceforge.net

WARNING: this gets rid of everything..

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#5 19-02-2007 12:14pm

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When you're installing XP, delete the old partition that Windows was on then make a new one and install on that - then it'll format it and your old install will be gone.

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#6 19-02-2007 1:36pm

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thanks all for the help.

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