Win ME Format

What's the quickest and safest way to format with win ME?

 

I have Windows ME. Did you want to format your HD? or floppy?

 

I want to format the HD

 

Check out this page:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=255867#6

This will give you detailed instructions on how to format your HD with Windows ME.
Let me know if this works.

Also:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=271673 (a portion of this link is posted below for you)

FORMATTING THE DRIVES
=====================

After the partitions and logical drives are created, you need
to format them.

To enable CD-ROM support:

1. After you restart your computer, a menu appears prompting you
to choose whether you want CD-ROM support.

- Select Option 1 or 2 to boot with CD-ROM support if you are
using a Windows Me Startup Disk.

- Select Option 1 if you are using a Windows 98 Startup Disk.

2. Watch for any error messages. There will be several
informational messages crossing the screen while the EBD
looks for your CD-ROM drive, but these are not necessarily
error messages.

When the display returns to the A prompt, you must format the
Primary partition (the C drive) you just created with Fdisk,
plus any logical drives created in any extended partitions.

IMPORTANT: If the computer has more than one hard disk drive,
make sure you are formatting the correct drive.
Otherwise, you can lose information that you cannot
recover. For example, before formatting drive D, at
the A prompt, type "dir d:" to make sure there is no
data on it. If the drive is empty, you should receive
an error message when you try to perform this command.

To format the hard drive:

1. To format drive C, at the A prompt type the following:

format c:

and then press ENTER. You will be warned that all data will be
lost.

Select Yes to continue with the format.

2. For each logical drive you created (such as D and E), at the
A prompt type the following:

format d: (or the appropriate drive letter)

Make sure you are formatting only the new drives you created,
not other drives on other hard disks in your computer.

 

those links don't work, techiegirl. just FYI.

eric

 

set your system to boot up on floppy
let read floppy
at A:/ TYPE IF C: ( IF THATS YOUR DRIVE)
THEN AT FLASHING C:
TYPE FORMAT C: (IT THEN SAYS ARE YOU SURE LOSE ALL DATA ETC)
TYPE Y
AND BOBS YOUR UNCLE 10 MINS LATER OR SO FORMATED.
REBOOT AGAIN WITH READING FLOPPY
INSERT ME DISC IN YOUR CDROM DRIVE MAKE SURE YOU KNOW YOUR DRIVE LETTER OF CDROM
THEN TYPE
D:
AT D:/
TYPE
SETUP AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW ME OR WIN98 WILL HAPPEN
EASY

 

You have to copy and paste them into the browser. I did not hyperlink the addresses.

 

I ended up getting it figured out that evening. Thanks for all the help though guys =)