What do you have in the floppy when you boot from that?

Perhaps add the drive as a slave on another PC and then you might
be able to format it?  Other possibility is to make a linux boot/root disk
and use that to format it.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Baker" <mbaker@OPTIMEINC.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 11:58 AM
Subject: [OT] : Expunging windows XP


> We just bought a little cheap PC for the Lab, and it came with XP. I need
> to blow XP off the drive and install W2K, for which we bought a shrink
> wrapped copy. I cannot get the system to wipe XP. The one time I want to
> format the drive, it won't let me. Icannot run setup from the CD, and when
> Ireset the Bios to boot from the CD or floppy, it still boots into XP.
>
> Has anyone else successfully dealt with this ?
>
> TIA
>
> Martin
>
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