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rainbowdwarrior

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March 5th, 2006 18:00

HELP!!!!!!!

Can someone please tell me how to reformat my hard drive...I have a Dell Deminsion 4200...I can't find it anywhere in the manual..I bought this computer from someone else and this is all I got with it..no disk..but I was thinking that you had to push F11 or something like that at reboot to reformat...can anyone help me please..
Thank you
Rain
  • ejn63

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    Posted March 5th, 2006 18:00

    The 4200 is far too old to have the Symantec quick restore.

    Put the OS CD in the drive, press F12 at power up, boot from the CD and follow through the installation.
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    Posted March 6th, 2006 01:00

    or right click on "my computer;manage;disk management"
    u can format everything there
  • ejn63

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    Posted March 6th, 2006 18:00

    You cannot format the drive if you've booted from it.

    What OS are you trying to install?
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    Posted March 6th, 2006 18:00

    alright I went to disk management...but how do you reformat from there?????