Thursday, July 27, 2000, 3:54:30 PM, Tom wrote:
NA>> Secondly, this may be OT for the List, but I've never reformatted
NA>> before, and I do have a start-up disk that has all the necessary files
NA>> and CD-ROM drivers, etc.  What I'm not sure of, is the exact command to
NA>> type in a DOS prompt that will clear my HDD. Is it just format C?

> Before you do this!

> Unplug your hard drive and make sure you can boot off of your floppy
> and that you can see your CD.  You wouldn't want to be reformatted
> with no way of accessing these things!  ;)

    Uhm...  Why?  No need to reformat the hard drive just to reinstall
windows.  Just delete the Windows directory.  xdelete or xdel is the command.

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