Does anyone know how to format and partition a harddrive.

[GeorgeWBush]

Is it hard i have two harddrives that need to be fixed before i can put an OS on it.

And can you think of a book that would tell how to do it.

Thank you.

 

[Hexxed]

bootdisk.com

Check the how-to guides down near the middle of the page. IIRC, windows XP setup can create partitions (that aren't going to be used for windows exclusively) and format them (or you format them later from windows).

 

[Weird Harold]

Is it hard i have two harddrives that need to be fixed before i can put an OS on it.

And can you think of a book that would tell how to do it.

Thank you.

All you need is a boot disk tht has FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.EXE on it.

1: Boot from the floppy drive with the boot disk.

2: At the A:\ prompt, type FDISK /MBR

3: At the A:\ prompt type FDISK and follow the prompts to create one DOS partition and however many "extended partiions" you need. One DOS partition and one extended partition on Drive0 and just a single Extended Partition on Drive1. Then allocate the space to however many logical drives you want within the extended partitions before exiting FDISK.

4: The system will automatically reboot when you exit FDISK.

You can then install Windows or another OS and it will automtically format the C: partition -- and may format all of the partitions -- OR you can manually format thepartitions before installing the OS.

5: At the A:\ prompt, type Format C: /S /U (Format drive C: unconditionally and install bootable system files.)

6: At the A:\ prompt, type Format x: /U For each logical drive where "x" is the logical drive letter.

7: reboot from the C: partition and install the OS.

Note: these instructions will work for Windows. Other Operating Systems may or may not recognise partitions created by FDISK and will require a similar process using the partitioning utility supplied with the OS. FORMAT.EXE creates MS-DOS/Windows drives and should NOT be used to format for other operating systems if you're going for a dual boot system.