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hi all i have just took delivery of a computer which does not have a floppy drive , if the worst happened in the future and i had to re install windows, how do you format the hard drive if there is not a floppy for the boot disk any advice welcome
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Re: format drive

if your using XP that should boot when installed, if the BIOS is set to search for boot from CD before IDE
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Re: format drive

As said, you format using the XP CD when booting from it.

You can also use something like UBCD which contains a software called KillDisk to completely wipe it away before installing anything in a HDD.
Same procedure for booting from the CD drive rather than the HDD.
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