Format a hard drive in windows + make bootable?

[-Mike-]

Hi guys,


As per subject really, how do I format a drive in windows xp and make it bootable to a command prompt?

 

[bledd]

how do you mean make it bootable? you need to install something on it to have it bootable

go into disk management , (start, run, diskmgmt.msc ) to format it

 

[Teaf]

Would formatting it as a primary partition then just putting all the basic command prompt files in the root not do it?

 

[marc2003]

you'll need a dos floppy to do that. you can't do it in windows xp

format c: /s /q

/s copies the system files to make it bootable.
/q quick format



edit: forgot to ask.... why do you even want to do this? if you want to mess around in dos, try either dosbox or install pure dos in vmware or something.....

or if you need to flash/backup your bios, just get a bootable iso (ultimatebootcd is one) that drops to a command prompt and have a small fat32 partition that you can easily read/write from.