Need to format primary HDD. How?

fred_easey

fred_easey

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HI,

I need to format my primary hard drive for a fresh install of windows.

I downloaded the win98 boot disk, but it only seems to give the option to format to FAT16 and FAT32. Can anyone point me in the direction of a boot disk that will let me format to NTFS?

(or should I just format to FAT32 and then convert to NTFS once I've installed windows?)

Fred
 
Scythe is quite right. This is from ntfs.com....

Q: How do you format a blank hard disk drive to NTFS or NTFS5 ?

A: There are no standard utilities to format HDD to NTFS from DOS.

However there are solutions:

Attach HDD to another machine having Windows NT installed if you want to format to NTFS, or to Windows 2000 / XP if you want to format it to NTFS5. Then format drive using Disk Manager utility that is included in OS.

You can start Windows NT / 2000 / XP installation using bootable CD-ROM. On first steps of installation you will be asked about target location and you will be suggested to format the partition to NTFS. Go this way, and after format is completed, just cancel the installation process.
 
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