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Old October 25th 10, 02:21 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics
Greg Forschler
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Default trying to erase hard drive

I'm trying to wipe the hard drive on an old XP laptop. I have a CD
that boots and after typing wipe it does the job. But the drive on
this machine won't work. So I'm trying to do it from a command line,
but I wasn't exactly sure how. A google search left me with things
like
format /u
format c:
format c: /s
but none of these work, I end up with
Required parameter missing-
or
Invalid parameter - /s

What else can I do at this point?
 




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