DOS command(s) question

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by sosaman, Dec 18, 2004.

  1. sosaman

    sosaman Sergeant Major

    does anybody know if there are commands to format your hard drive from DOS? Basically I want to wipe it clean and start over, I'm having some trouble trying to install XP on a hard drive on my laptop. thx,
     
  2. Colemanguy

    Colemanguy MajorGeek

    boot from a boot disk and type format C: But thats not nessacry the windows xp install should give the option to format the drive.
     

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