Formating win 2000

[ARS]

Everytime I go to format Win2000, it says it cannot because of other programs still running in windows. Well, I ctrl-alt-del all of them except explorer..and it still doesn't work.

I tried it in Safe Mode also. If I restarted in ms-dos mode, would that work? And how do I do this in Win2000?

Thanks =)
Anthony

[tekelberry]

u cant format while you have windows loaded up

[JamieLee2k]

you need a boot disk

[Joe]

lol

Thats the same for any OS

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http://www.bootdisk.com

[ARS]

For win98 I just restart in dos...and format and start it up by changing my bio's where it checks for my f: drive (cd-rom) for anything and it starts up that way instead of having a boot disk. (I dont have an A:, floppy)

but in win2000, I can't restart it in dos.. =/


Thanks Anyways,
Anthony

[Joe]

LMFAO

No floppy...

Thats sad poor guy... dont know what to say.. I dont think the win 98' - 2K cds have format.com on them

[ARS]

I don't see the problem with no floppy. There is always another way around things that I usually find and gives me a challenge...but this I cannot find out how to do

I'll keep trying and what not


Anthony

[SeedOfChaos]

Well, if you have the original Win2k CD it shouldn't be a problem at all. Just pop the CD in and boot from it, then when it let's you choose which partition to you you just delete the partition and recreate it (1 minute effort), and the select it to install Win2k on. It will automatically format it, asking you whether you want NTFS or FAT32.

If you don't have the CD and no boot drive then you're out of luck, I suppose...

Cheers,
Ronald

[MadDoctor]

Just got back from a W2K format myself. I went into safe mode, stuffed in the CD and held down the C key while booting. No problem after that.

[Anime-loo]

or u could do like i do make the bootdisk form the 2k zip file i have whoops wasent supose to say that LOL