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formating 7422gx?

post #1 of 9
1/25/05 at 9:16pm
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sorry for the newbie question but im having trouble formating the notebook. ive never had problems with me desktop and formating it using fdisk etc...

but on this notebook i cant even access the dos prompts without windows being active.

what would be the best way to reformat it since im i want to install win xp pro.?

thank you
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post #2 of 9
1/25/05 at 9:30pm
Use XP setup to delete the partition, then recreate a partition and format it.
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post #3 of 9
1/25/05 at 9:42pm
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all i see in the setup screen is the choice of - upgrade or New Installetion(advanced),

it that what u mean? jst choose the new installetion? and it will partition and reformat?
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post #4 of 9
1/25/05 at 10:33pm
Here is a good resource.

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/winx...exfullpage.htm
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post #5 of 9
1/25/05 at 11:20pm
There is no DOS prompt now - DOS is strictly run through an emulated command box. So you can't access what passes for DOS w/o Windows being active.
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post #6 of 9
1/25/05 at 11:25pm
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thanks guys, jst got it to work
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post #7 of 9
1/25/05 at 11:28pm
Awesome!
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post #8 of 9
1/26/05 at 10:23am
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Originally Posted by tntoak
There is no DOS prompt now - DOS is strictly run through an emulated command box. So you can't access what passes for DOS w/o Windows being active.
Actually, the reason it can't be formatted through FDISK is because NTFS partitions are invisible through a FAT type partition. This was done by design for security reasons. It's one of the "features" of NTFS
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post #9 of 9
1/26/05 at 11:18am
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Originally Posted by Thunder_PC
Actually, the reason it can't be formatted through FDISK is because NTFS partitions are invisible through a FAT type partition. This was done by design for security reasons. It's one of the "features" of NTFS
There is a version of FDISK that can see the NTFS partitions (it's included on the eMachines/Gateway restore discs that use Ghost, I think it's the Windows ME version). Cant create them with it of course, but will let you delete them.
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