I never got a disk with it, it was made in 2005 how do i reformat the drive? and its a dell pentium 4 processor. and it has windows xp on it.
2007-03-28 21:45:11 · 4 answers · asked by oneandonlyness 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
the command used to formate a drive is "formate"
usage-
FORMAT volume [/FS:file-system] [/V:label] [/Q] [/A:size] [/C] [/X]
for help, type cmd in run window of ur computer, then type formate /? in the window that opens, it wil list all the options u can use with that command.
for example, if u want to formate the D drive of ur computer, u can use
formate d:
or
formate d: /fs:ntfs (if u want NTFS file system)
one word of caution, never run this command on ur windows-xp partition (where xp is installed) or all ur files there wil be deleted and u wil not be able to boot it up.
2007-03-28 23:35:06 · answer #1 · answered by vivek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look for a hidden partition or folder that has the recovery disk info there. Should be able to use thre programs there to build a set of cd's.
2007-03-29 04:51:39 · answer #2 · answered by Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you don't have a disk to re-install the Operating System --- Leave it alone. If you reformat (I won't tell you how) you will have no working computer because the O. S. won't be there!!!
2007-03-29 04:52:13 · answer #3 · answered by Bert H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.support.dell.com or call their Tech Support
2007-03-29 05:02:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋