I got it to go.... but do you have any idea how long it takes to format an
eighty gig hard drive....I got lunch, ran some errands, piked up some
groceries, etc....
Thanks again to everyone!!!...
M


At 04:45 PM 2/27/02 -0600, you wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Martin Baker wrote:
>
> > 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 ?
>
>Yup ... I still keep around a DOS (actually Win98) bootable diskette with
>things like FDISK and FORMAT on it exactly for these sorts of things.  Use
>FDISK and wipe out the partitions.  Can't boot from them then!
>
>It sounds, however, like your PC is not trying to boot from the CD.
>
>-- Mitch
>
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