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clifford · 08-01-2005, 08:49 PM

Hi,

My daughter has an hp pavilion we bought a few years ago with windows ME. I have reloaded it dozens of times with the original cd's that came with it. However I do not beleive it really re-formats the drive and reloads.

When I try to boot up into dos mode and run the format command it reports bad command or something is running. I have removed norton and other things but still no go.

How can I re-format c drive to be sure it is a clean re-install?
Do you think hp burned something to the bios to not allow formatting c drive?

08-01-2005, 08:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
clifford Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 26	Format hd to remove Windows Millennium Hi, My daughter has an hp pavilion we bought a few years ago with windows ME. I have reloaded it dozens of times with the original cd's that came with it. However I do not beleive it really re-formats the drive and reloads. When I try to boot up into dos mode and run the format command it reports bad command or something is running. I have removed norton and other things but still no go. How can I re-format c drive to be sure it is a clean re-install? Do you think hp burned something to the bios to not allow formatting c drive?