Reinstall W2K and format hard drive

Question

Hi,

I have a refurbished Dell Latitude C600 laptop, with a pre-installed W2K on a single partition hard drive (C: drive). The laptop came from Dell with only a reinstall W2K CD.

Lately, when I installed DSL, the laptop became really unstable, at one time W2K cannot even boot. Now I want to reformat the hard drive and reinstall W2K from scratch.

I went through several times reinstallation. During installation, there is one step asking for choosing from 3 selections: (1) install on the an unused partition. (2) install in the current installtion location (WINNT) (3) format the hard drive (by pressing key D)

I want to choose selection (3) above to format the hard drive. But when I push key D, nothing happen. The only selection that works is (2), install in the current location (WINNT)

My question is: how to format the hard drive and do a clean W2K installtion with only a reinstall CD?

Thanks in advance for advice.

velvet revolver · Answer

hi there!!

when you choose to install in the same partition (WINNT),, it will also ask you later on if you would like to format that partition. at that point you can choose to either format the partition using NTFS file system or FAT.

hope this helps!

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Reddykvn · Answer

I think you booted your system through that partition and trying to format the same partition.. Try booting your system using CD (check bios for boot sequence, change it to CD first).. Then delete the partition and reinstall.. It should work..

kaizhu · Answer

I go into BIOS and move CD driver to the first place for reboot (it used to be hard drive first). Now I can reformat the hard drive and had just installed a fresh W2K. Thanks again for the help!

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Reinstall W2K and format hard drive

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