Win 2K Reformatting Hard drive

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faxylady - 28 Jun 2007 17:54 GMT

How does one completely reformat a hard drive under Win 2000? Under Win 98,
you shut down, then chose Restart in DOS mode, then proceeded with Format C:.

I have tried inserting the Win 2K CD in the CD Rom drive and choosing to do
a new installation but this does not completely wipe the hard drive. The
operating system and all my programs appeared to be there, but not
necessarily in good working order.

I want the entire hard drive wiped anew with everything removed.

How do I do this?

I could not find the proper forum to ask this question, this is why I am
asking it here.

Thanks.

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Arvin Meyer [MVP] - 28 Jun 2007 18:33 GMT

Your question may be better answered in a newsgroup appropriate to your
problem. This newsgroup is dedicated to the Microsoft Access database
product. The Microsoft website is not all that clear and may have
misdirected you.
--
Arvin Meyer, MCP, MVP
Free MS-Access downloads:
http://www.datastrat.com
http://www.mvps.org/access
http://www.accessmvp.com

> How does one completely reformat a hard drive under Win 2000? Under Win
> 98,
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> Thanks.

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John W. Vinson - 28 Jun 2007 20:08 GMT

>I could not find the proper forum to ask this question, this is why I am
>asking it here.

Well, this isn't the right forum either: this group is for the database
program Microsoft Access, not for general Windows questions.

For Windows 2000 server questions try

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb430837.aspx

John W. Vinson [MVP]

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