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Rob - 31 Jul 2003 16:36 GMT

I am trying to format a machine that was given to me. It
has NT workstation 4.0 on it and I have no disks or CD.
How can I format this drive so that I can put another OS
on it? I cant get to a DOS prompt.

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Dave Patrick - 31 Jul 2003 16:46 GMT

To wipe the drive some ways include; boot a win98 startup disk, run fdisk
and delete all partition information found (as long as NTFS is primary). Or
boot the Windows 2000 CD-Rom or setup disks and when you get to the point,
delete the existing NTFS and or other partitions found, then abort the
install. Or use a utility named delpart. Once removed you can partition and
format the drive as you wish.

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-public/reskit/nt31/i386/reskit.exe
(The ftp server has been flakey the last few weeks. You may need to start in
the root and drill down to it)

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> I am trying to format a machine that was given to me. It
> has NT workstation 4.0 on it and I have no disks or CD.
> How can I format this drive so that I can put another OS
> on it? I cant get to a DOS prompt.

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