Formatting...

[xxDavidianxx]

Sorry if this question has been asked a thousand times or I'm in the wrong forum, but here it is...

Having a number of computers lying about the house, I've decided to throw out my old PII 133 (I think that's what it was - I can't remember now) running Win 95. Anyway, before giving it the old heave-ho, I want to totally format it; not just a simple format, but wipe the partitions; the lot!

My question is, in a simple, concise fashion, would someone please be able to explain to me how I would go about it. I'm not just talking about C:/ format, I want to do the whole thing!

Cheers!

 

[anarchy]

Read.

http://www.unl.edu/is/computerdspl.htm

 

[n_derr]

the command is "format C:"

 

[anarchy]

I'm not just talking about C:/ format, I want to do the whole thing!

He needs everything.

 

[xxDavidianxx]

Thank you ladies and gentlemen.
Much appreciated.

 

[anarchy]

Tell us if any problems occur.

 

[xxDavidianxx]

Shall do...

...I probably wont be doing it till tomorrow, but I'll get back to you...

 

[becroydon]

create a startup disk, restart the computer and change the bios to read floppy first, the on the command prompt type fdisk

 

[xxDavidianxx]

I seemed to be able to delete the partition and then format, so hopefully all went to plan...