Formatting A Drive

[Guest Coneman]

Hi Guys,Is it possible to format a hard drive without a floppy drive? I would like to format a drive and install Windows Me for my sons computer.Thanks,Todd

[Guest Edwin]

Hi Todd,It shouldn't be a problem in "normal" circumstances. What I mean by normal is no special hardware that requires proprietary drivers in order to read from the CD/DVD drive or write to the hard drive. For example, I have SATA hard drives connected to a Silicon Image RAID controller. Without the drivers for the SiI controller, the computer won't even realize the hard drives are there. So, I need a floppy drive to load the SiI drivers in order to install Windows.But in most cases, both your hard drive and your CD/DVD drive containing the Windows CD would be connected to rather standard connectors on your motherboard. In that case, you can just boot from your Windows Me CD and off you go with the installation!Hope this helps.Edwin

[DescendDescend]

You could try creating a boot disk on the A drive of another machine, copy the files to a CD and then on you sons machine set it to boot from CD in the bios.

[Guest Coneman]

Thanks for the help guys. I got it to boot from the CD and was able to format the drive with the Win Me CD. Only thing is it only formatted a 2g partition. How do I format the other 18g?Thanks,Todd

[Guest Coneman]

Nevermind, I think I missed something during setup. Got it now.Todd