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[Teresa Scott]

how to fdisk windows xp home?

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

Teresa Scott wrote:
> how to fdisk windows xp home?

What exactly do you want to do?

[Chris Lanier]

You dont. The XP Setup has partitioning tolls built in.

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[Teresa Scott]

>-----Original Message-----
>Teresa Scott wrote:
>> how to fdisk windows xp home?
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>What exactly do you want to do?
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>I want to reformat this hard drive!

[ram]

If you have adminstration privilage then you can open
Control panel - Administration Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management
Select the drive you want to format.
-ram

"Chris Lanier" > wrote in message
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> You dont. The XP Setup has partitioning tolls built in.
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[John E. Carty]

"ram" > wrote in message
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> If you have adminstration privilage then you can open
> Control panel - Administration Tools - Computer Management - Disk
Management
> Select the drive you want to format.

Unless it's the boot partition they want to format. Then you need to boot
from the CD :-)


> -ram
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[CBuntrock]

fdisk is a OOOLD dos program. to format drives in NTFS you need to use the tool in the setup built in.

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

CBuntrock wrote:
> fdisk is a OOOLD dos program. to format drives in NTFS you need to
> use the tool in the setup built in.

Not at all - you can boot with a W98 floppy boot disk and use Fdisk on
"non-dos partitions"

[Michael Stevens]

Teresa Scott wrote:
> how to fdisk windows xp home?

If XP is using NTFS, you delete the non-dos partition, if fat, it's the same
as any fat partition. But it's not necessary depending on what you are
trying to accomplish.
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[Harry Ohrn]

Take this link and look at How to Partition and How to Format
http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm

If you use DISKPART you can delete and create a partition.

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> how to fdisk windows xp home?

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

FDisk is an old MS-DOS utility that is not available in WinXP.

Simply boot from the WinXP installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)

HOW TO Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm


Bruce Chambers

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