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Formating a Hard Disk

I am using a P4 with windows 2000 OS. My hard disk is currently partisioned to C and D.
All my datas are in C drive. I wish to format my HD and reinstall 2000 again without removing any datas.
I am quite new to this, so pls help me step by step.

thanks
Izadhy

schmiegu

Formatting a HDD removes all data from it. Your only chance is to backup your data first (additional HDD, tape or CD-R(w)) if you want to format the C drive.
If you want to leave the partitioning as it is, you can move your data to D, but if you want to repartition the HDD - see above.

Izadhy

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Dear Schmiegu
I wish to leave the partision as it is. So is it possible to move the datas to D and format C. and will the datas be safe by doing so.

schmiegu

If you don't touch the partitioning scheme, the data will be safe (that's the reason I always have my data on as different partition - or disk - than the OS: I reinstall very often).

Izadhy

ASKER

Dear schmiegu
Thanks for the advice. Now tell me how to format it.
Is it going to explorer and selecting C drive, right click it and select format or going to BIOS???
So please tell me in detail.

Thanks
Izadhy

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quang051097

Reinstall Windows 2000 in C: does not require reformatting C:
If you want to install a new fresh Windows 2000
on C:, just follow the Win2K installation,
select another Win2K folder when asked.
After booting your system with new Win2K, you can remove
the old Win2K folder. Remember to edit Boot.ini to remove
the entry pointing to the old Win2K folder.

Izadhy

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Dear schmiegu
Thanks for the help

Bye
Izadhy