win2000 and formating disk

**ToTo** · July 6th, 2002, 09:35 AM

I have installed win2k on my computer. The problem is that I dont know how to format my C drive (disk have no partitions) because win2k does not alow me to do it (sure, win2k won't make suicide).

Is it solution to go in "Safe mode with command prompt" or what, coz' I don't know how to get DOS mode with boot disks.

Thanks.

**tobu** · July 6th, 2002, 09:42 AM

hmmmmmm, never used win2k but in XP you right click on the drive in the my computer section and hit formatt. I'm not sure what will happen if this is your system disk it worked when i did it to a differant drive in my computer...

sorry i aint much help!

**bwcc** · July 6th, 2002, 10:25 AM

Ok, if i understand this - you had Windows 2K installed, but now you want to format your C: drive. Is this where you had Win2K installed at?

To format a HDD or create/remove partitions, boot from the CD.

**thekemp** · July 6th, 2002, 10:42 AM

control pannel>admin tools>computer management > disk manager
this will give you a veiw of your drives and the option to format or change the drives.

**Brainchild** · July 6th, 2002, 11:45 AM

This might be helpful
Or Maybe this

You should be able to go into BIOS, and set it to boot from CD-ROM, put in the 2000 disk, and restart. It should then give you the option to boot from hard disk, or cd-rom, choose cd-rom, and partition it from there.