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Codemonkey · 2006-08-13 #4

ahh, use the windows bootdisk and do it during the installation. Once you formatted you can simply stop the installation any time you want.

Or, create a dos disk which has format.exe. Or use fdisk and simply completely remove the partition and add it again (this is pretty advanced if you don't know much about formatting).

With a linux boot disk you should be able to do that as well, but I'm not familiar in that particular area.

You might be able to format the drive in windows safe mode with dosbox only (hit F8 during boot). Haven't tried that before...

	Codemonkey	2006-08-13 #4
	ahh, use the windows bootdisk and do it during the installation. Once you formatted you can simply stop the installation any time you want. Or, create a dos disk which has format.exe. Or use fdisk and simply completely remove the partition and add it again (this is pretty advanced if you don't know much about formatting). With a linux boot disk you should be able to do that as well, but I'm not familiar in that particular area. You might be able to format the drive in windows safe mode with dosbox only (hit F8 during boot). Haven't tried that before...