hi all
god i feel like a newbie it is very rare i have had to fdisk or reformat my harddrive been lucky i guess/hope
but anyways got some new bits coming and i aint built a system in 2 years
i got new h/d coming for me and my old one for sis but i just been thinking how the hell do you format and fdisk them again lol heres what i think just guide me if im wrong
both having xp on
set bios to boot from floppy
restart with 98bootdisc in floppy
wait for prompt
type fdisk then delete partition then create partition and use whole drive (just press enter)
(is it create a primary partition ) or dos partition which i dont think it is
it will tell me disk is bigger than 512 do i want to continue press yes
then go back to prompt then FORMAT c: or FORMAT C.EXE
but i have also been told just to slap my xp disc in and it will let me do all this anyways at start up before installing xp
god i know this is a real newbie question that most of you will giggle at let me do it for you