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Answer» Help. I'm trying to re-format the HDD on one of my computers which is running Windows XP Pro. I WENT to bootdisk.com and tried everyone there with zero results. I tried creating a bootdisk on this COMPUTER which is running Windows XP Home. It works but I can't get out of the A drive. It won't accept any commands to change directory. I want to partition the HDD, re-format and then re-install Windows XP.After SETTING bios to boot from the cdrom first, boot from the XP cd from which you want to install then follow the on-screen prompts to delete/create partitions and format.Quote from: Dusty on April 28, 2008, 07:37:48 PM After setting bios to boot from the cdrom first, boot from the XP cd from which you want to install then follow the on-screen prompts to delete/create partitions and format. I tried that but all it wanted to do was install another Windows XP but I'll try it again tomorrow and pay more attention to the prompts.Quote from: SuperDave on April 28, 2008, 06:23:06 PM I tried creating a bootdisk on this computer which is running Windows XP Home. It works but I can't get out of the A drive. It won't accept any commands to change directory. I want to partition the HDD, re-format and then re-install Windows XP. To change directories use the "cd" command. To change drives use the drive letter followed by a colon; e.g. "c:", "d:", "e:". See Learning MS-DOS Basics - A TutorialI'm quite familiar with DOS. I tried cd C: and I kept GETTING bad command. The only one that would work was dir and help. I'm booting from the CD now and it only gives me one option and that is to format the existing partition which is the whole drive. Oh well, I suppose I can partition it after the os is installed.Quote from: SuperDave I'm booting from the CD now and it only gives me one option and that is to format the existing partition which is the whole drive. Not factual, prior to giving you the option to format you will get the option to delete partition(s). After that you will have to create new partition(s) for which you must specify the size(s). Then you will get the option to format. Good luckQuote from: SuperDave on April 29, 2008, 06:52:18 AM I tried cd C: and I kept getting bad command. This is something I always TRIP over. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer in my previous explanation. To change drives you just enter the drive letter followed by a colon; e.g. "c:", not "cd c:".Quote from: dahlarbear on April 29, 2008, 07:38:21 PM Quote from: SuperDave on April 29, 2008, 06:52:18 AM I tried cd C: and I kept getting bad command. This is something I always trip over. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer in my previous explanation. To change drives you just enter the drive letter followed by a colon; e.g. "c:", not "cd c:". I tried that too. I wouldn't budge from the A: drive. Anyway, I have the OS installed and running fine. Thanks

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Help. I'm trying to re-format the HDD on one of my computers which is running Windows XP Pro. I WENT to bootdisk.com and tried everyone there with zero results. I tried creating a bootdisk on this COMPUTER which is running Windows XP Home. It works but I can't get out of the A drive. It won't accept any commands to change directory. I want to partition the HDD, re-format and then re-install Windows XP.After SETTING bios to boot from the cdrom first, boot from the XP cd from which you want to install then follow the on-screen prompts to delete/create partitions and format.Quote from: Dusty on April 28, 2008, 07:37:48 PM

After setting bios to boot from the cdrom first, boot from the XP cd from which you want to install then follow the on-screen prompts to delete/create partitions and format.

I tried that but all it wanted to do was install another Windows XP but I'll try it again tomorrow and pay more attention to the prompts.Quote from: SuperDave on April 28, 2008, 06:23:06 PM

I tried creating a bootdisk on this computer which is running Windows XP Home. It works but I can't get out of the A drive. It won't accept any commands to change directory. I want to partition the HDD, re-format and then re-install Windows XP.

To change directories use the "cd" command. To change drives use the drive letter followed by a colon; e.g. "c:", "d:", "e:".

See Learning MS-DOS Basics - A TutorialI'm quite familiar with DOS. I tried cd C: and I kept GETTING bad command. The only one that would work was dir and help. I'm booting from the CD now and it only gives me one option and that is to format the existing partition which is the whole drive. Oh well, I suppose I can partition it after the os is installed.Quote from: SuperDave

I'm booting from the CD now and it only gives me one option and that is to format the existing partition which is the whole drive.

Not factual, prior to giving you the option to format you will get the option to delete partition(s). After that you will have to create new partition(s) for which you must specify the size(s). Then you will get the option to format.

Good luckQuote from: SuperDave on April 29, 2008, 06:52:18 AM

I tried cd C: and I kept getting bad command.

This is something I always TRIP over. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer in my previous explanation. To change drives you just enter the drive letter followed by a colon; e.g. "c:", not "cd c:".Quote from: dahlarbear on April 29, 2008, 07:38:21 PM

Quote from: SuperDave on April 29, 2008, 06:52:18 AM
I tried cd C: and I kept getting bad command.

This is something I always trip over. I'm sorry I wasn't clearer in my previous explanation. To change drives you just enter the drive letter followed by a colon; e.g. "c:", not "cd c:".

I tried that too. I wouldn't budge from the A: drive. Anyway, I have the OS installed and running fine. Thanks

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