The time has come for my ritual drive reformatting...only the last time I did this was eight years ago, and with an IDE HD. <:/ I don't even know where to begin with cooking my SATA drive, although I have managed to load the drivers for the HD onto a floppy, along with the driver for my motherboard onto another floppy.
Having gone through all the documentation I can find, it's still as clear as mud to me... could anyone with a metric ton of patience give me a few pointers?
I'm not sure if I need to:
1. reboot the machine, access the BIOS and somehow tell it to boot from the windows OEM cd i've got in my dvd drive (although i thought i had done this, but apparently not!) to reformat from.
2. Boot to the c: prompt somehow, and start the reformatting procedure from there. Only i believe that windows XP's lack of SATA drivers may well prevent this..?
I do know the drive is formatted to NTFS, so i believe i have to reformat with a specific parameter... not entirely sure on this either,though.
I'm just not sure where to start the great Reformat! Anybody who could point me in the right direction will be doing their karma no end of good
Having gone through all the documentation I can find, it's still as clear as mud to me... could anyone with a metric ton of patience give me a few pointers?
I'm not sure if I need to:
1. reboot the machine, access the BIOS and somehow tell it to boot from the windows OEM cd i've got in my dvd drive (although i thought i had done this, but apparently not!) to reformat from.
2. Boot to the c: prompt somehow, and start the reformatting procedure from there. Only i believe that windows XP's lack of SATA drivers may well prevent this..?
I do know the drive is formatted to NTFS, so i believe i have to reformat with a specific parameter... not entirely sure on this either,though.
I'm just not sure where to start the great Reformat! Anybody who could point me in the right direction will be doing their karma no end of good