- Formatting HD with Win 2000 Pro
- Posted by J.Stamper on March 5th, 2004
I was given a PC with a 40 Gig HD in it that has Windows
2000 Pro installed on it. The old user had a password
installed and I have no way of aquiring it since the old
owner passed away. I also do not have any of the old
discs! I am just simply trying to remove 2000 by
formatting the HD and I am having no luck. I am trying
to use the Win 98 boot disk I have and format, but it
says "Does Not Support Format Command" I also have no
luck when entering FDISK and trying to partition the HD.
It just freezes up . Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated ! Thanks and feel free to e-mail me with any
solutions
- Posted by Pegasus \(MVP\) on March 5th, 2004
There are lots of ways of formatting a hard disk. Here
are two of them:
- Boot with your Win2000 CD, pretend to install Win2000,
then allow the disk to be formatted when prompted.
- Boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk from
www.bootdisk.com, then use fdisk.exe to repartition
the disk. You can then format each partition.
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- Posted by Bruce Chambers on March 5th, 2004
Greetings --
HOW TO Manually Remove Win2K and Restore Win9x
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q250456
Bruce Chambers
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- Posted by Blare Sutton on March 5th, 2004
Alternatively, instead of reinstalling, you could download the password
reset disk available from:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
A handy tool to have around, especially for when staff leave and reset
passwords on machines, etc.
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