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December 5th, 2003 15:00
Reformatting without Boot Disk
I have Windows Me and need to reformat my hard drive. I called Dell, and a man there said he would send me an email of the cdenab.exe program. However, his link was bad and the file is no longer on the dell website (file not found).
I recently reformatted my hard drive usually only the Windows CD over the phone and it worked fine. I started the computer with CD-ROM support and got to the A:/>. We eventually got to a windows/command prompt, but I can't remember what I typed after that... can anyone help me?
*Creating a boot disk and using the cdenab.exe will take too much time because my floppies that I brought are bad.
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LittleAdvice
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December 5th, 2003 16:00
DannyBoy_Clemson,
See the following link for information on installing windows ME.
http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document.asp?dn=1036679
DELL-Les
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December 5th, 2003 21:00
DannyBoy_Clemson,
You can download a boot disk and use it to format the drive.
Download the file at the following location to the desktop of the system and then unzip it to a blank diskette.
http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/download.asp?fileid=R19387&format=19184
Use this diskette to boot the system and follow on screen instructions and choose the IDE CD ROM support. Once you are to a dos prompt all you need to do is type FORMAT C: and hit ENTER it will tell you that all data will be lost and ask you if you are sure that you want to do this. Type Y and hit ENTER and the format process will start. When the format is done you will want to reboot the system without the BOOT DISK and go to the BIOS of your system and set the CD ROM as the primary boot device. Put the recovery CD in the drive and the system will boot from the CD and you will get the windows load from the disk follow the onscreen instructions and accept the default settings.
shesagordie
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December 5th, 2003 21:00
DannyBoy_Clemson.
How to format the hard drive using Dell's Millennium Edition Operating System CD.
http://support.dell.com/us/en/kb/document_print.asp?DN=FA1057331
Bev.
DannyBoy_Clemso
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December 5th, 2003 21:00
Thanks, but I know how to install windows. I was wondering how to reformat the hard drive using the windows cd.
DannyBoy_Clemso
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December 11th, 2003 20:00
Thanks shesagordie,
You were very helpful. This is just what I was looking for.