Re: Format HD Help ??

From: William R. Mosher (woogles_at_charter.net)
Date: 07/11/03 

Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:07:29 -0500

If you have a Windows 98 boot diskette, boot from it and go to the DOS prompt rather than install Windows 98. Use FDISK to delete all the partitions, then create a partition and format it from your boot diskette.

William

  "Uncle Sam" <rapidan2002@aol.com> wrote in message news:rKEPa.50605$3o3.3352889@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
  How can I recover and do a DOS reformat of a 12 GB HD which had Linux
  installed on it? Right now a DOS format is limited to about 1 GB.

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