My friends computer is completely un-funtional. Has so much mal-ware i was unable to save it. I was able to save it the first time around then he didnt maintain it again and now i cant control it. So i came up with the decision of reformatting. Although i dont have the reformat CD for the harddrive. Is there anyway i can reformat his PC w/out having the HDD CD? If so please suggest.

Thanks,

Matrix

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My friends computer is completely un-funtional. Has so much mal-ware i was unable to save it. I was able to save it the first time around then he didnt maintain it again and now i cant control it. So i came up with the decision of reformatting. Although i dont have the reformat CD for the harddrive. Is there anyway i can reformat his PC w/out having the HDD CD? If so please suggest.

Thanks,

Matrix

format c: wil do the thing you want, i hoop you know that you have to boot with dos or win95, 98 boot disk

What OS does your friend have? There are many freeware bootable CD ISOs to do that kind of thing.

If you have sommit like Win 98, you have to make a bootable floppy disk, can be made on any other machine, eithe ron WIn XP, right click on the floppy drive, format, create MS-DOS start up disk.

or in WIn 98 go through the control panel in add remove programs, there a tab for creating this disk, cant remmeber where exactly.

use eithe rof those to boot to, then like previously stated, when it loads type format c:

then wait

if its WIN XP, setup will format for you after a few stages, if you've lost that disk, well...stuffed, so gotta get a new one

if its WIN XP, setup will format for you after a few stages, if you've lost that disk, well...stuffed, so gotta get a new one

It's the solution

Windows XP can manage hard disk directly during the Setup !