fdisk question

[Jjangthekid]

I want to completely erase my harddrive of everything and the fdisk would do the job right?. and can i burn the fdisk onto a cd and use that to erase everything? because long time ago, I copied it onto the floppy disk and did it and so I'm not sure if i can burn the fdisk program onto the cd and use it.

[Gryph]

Well you can burn it on a CD but that's pointless since you'll need a bootdisk to get into DOS and that already has FDISK.

 

And using FDISK will erase everything. Just make sure you know what you are doing.

[Agozer]

All in all, FDISK erases and creates partitions... I really would use that for a format operation

[Jjangthekid]

yea I know what it does, and so what your saying is I can't use the FDISK in the cd to erase everything? because the computer doesn't haev a floppy disk drive.

[Gryph]

Do you have a Windows XP CD? That's bootable and it MIGHT have FDISK on it, I'm not sure.

 

What kind of PCs, besides Macs, don't have a floppy drives anymore?

[Agozer]

What kind of PCs, besides Macs, don't have a floppy drives anymore?

Mine doesn't. But that's because of my own negligence (sp?).

[Ghosty]

Actrully(sp?) Windows XP Doen't Have Fdisk In It, You'll have To Use A Windows 95 Or 98 Startup Disk. Is That Good Enough You Naziz?

[i l l m a t i c]

I want to completely erase my harddrive of everything and the fdisk would do the job right?

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or u could do a easy way and do the format cmd...format X: (X= Drive letter)

 

Yeah XP doesnt have fdisk, if you're using XP...just use parition magic to manage/create paritions