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Infiltrator
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:03
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Hi Please someone tell me how to format my hard drive with Windows 2000. Please don't make a chaos of this!! I don't want you people tell me that I shouldn't use win2000 and indtead i should worship Apple's Mac, i just wanna know how to format a Win2000 PC!!! Posts: 446 | Registered: Friday, July 22 2005 07:00 |
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:07
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I can't help you on that but i think this topic belongs in the tech-support area don't you? -------------------- I hate you all Posts: 165 | Registered: Friday, October 28 2005 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:09
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quote:Believe me i know, but who reads that area anyway??? :confused: Posts: 446 | Registered: Friday, July 22 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:11
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I agree this should be in tech support. I know Microsoft has lousy documentation, but doesn't the help file have anything useful on the subject. I never used Windows2000 so I can't give you more help. Be sure to back up before formatting since that will wipe everything. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:17
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quote:I think I foud it but thanks anyway, but I will surely have constantly future troubles until I finally install the damn thing... And don't tell me about backup my files, it's a long story but I already lost all my music and files...MY MUSIC!!about 1200 songs!!!DAMN!!!! :mad: Oh!! not music I make of course... [ Friday, July 21, 2006 17:19: Message edited by: chicho1102 ] Posts: 446 | Registered: Friday, July 22 2005 07:00 |
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:24
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[/QB][/QUOTE]Believe me i know, but who reads that area anyway??? :confused: [/QB][/QUOTE] You would be surprised. [ Friday, July 21, 2006 17:25: Message edited by: Bomber ] -------------------- I hate you all Posts: 165 | Registered: Friday, October 28 2005 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:24
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No, this doesn't belong in Tech Support: it's in the right place where it is. (Tech Support is for specifically SW-related issues.) You can format your hard drive by bringing up a DOS prompt and entering FORMAT X:\*.* Where X is the name of your drive. Depending how Windows 2000 syntax works, you may have to type FORMAT X, FORMAT X:, or FORMAT X:\ instead. Don't worry - mis-syntaxing the parameter will do nothing nasty. (But make sure X is a drive you want deleted!) If it says bad command or file name or something like that, navigate to your Windows directory first. Back up ANYTHING important first, and make sure you have an install CD for your OS and any vital programs ready at hand. Expect to spend a few hours setting your computer up afterward. If you don't know how to get to a DOS prompt, it should be reachable as follows: START > ALL PROGRAMS > ACCESSORIES > COMMAND PROMPT Windows 2000 may require that you first boot into DOS to format. To do that, go to START > SHUT DOWN, selecting 'Quit To DOS' or whatever equivalent item there is. I strongly recommend you get a better OS in the future - Windows 2000 is terrible. XP is much more stable and user-friendly. In the meanwhile, I hope this helps! [ Friday, July 21, 2006 17:30: Message edited by: The Worst Man Ever ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:31
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Windows 2000 has a relatively easy instllation structure. Basically, you just put the disc into your CD drive and boot your PC up. At this point, it should boot straight into the Win2K setup. If it does not, you'll have to go into your BIOS settings and make sure that your computer boots from the CD drive before the hard drive. Once the setup program has loaded, you basically follow the instructions. If I remember correctly, (It's been a few years since I last installed Win2K) it comes to a partition selection screen. At this point, if you use the arrow keys to select your current hard drive partition, a list of commands shows up on the bottom. Press the key that is listed as the command for "Delete partition" (or something to that effect). After that, I believe all you have to do is select the unpartitioned space and press Enter. At this point, it will ask you if you want to format in FAT32 or NTFS. Unless you have a small hard drive (5 GB or less), I would suggest that you format using NTFS, as it is more stable and secure. Once the drive is formatted, the system should reboot and start the Win2k setup. -------------------- "You're drinking liquor because you're thirsty? How nasty is your freaking water?" —Lazarus Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:33
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I'm not certain about NTFS being a feature as early as Win2K, but I'm certain it's probably not advisable to change formats - NTFS is more exclusive and has compatibility issues, whereas FAT has been market-standard forever and would not cause any problems were one to revert to an older version of Windows. (98 > 2000 stability-wise.) Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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The Establishment
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:36
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quote:This topic does DEFINITELY NOT BELONG in Tech Support. We only service Spiderweb Software products there. Be that Win2000 is not such a product, it does not belong there. -------------------- Your flower power is no match for my glower power! Posts: 3726 | Registered: Tuesday, September 18 2001 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, July 21 2006 17:47
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quote:Wow Thanks!! But I told that I didn't wanted any sugerence about the OS!!! :mad: He he just kidding, the thing is that i've heard that thing of "Win2000 sucks" so many times that I decided to try it, i have a weird tendency to like what other people dislike... But Xp is so complicated, and my Pc is slow and that thing don't run vey good with 256 mb doesn't it?? Well when I decide to install XP you will probably see me here cryng for a little help for installing it... [ Friday, July 21, 2006 17:48: Message edited by: chicho1102 ] Posts: 446 | Registered: Friday, July 22 2005 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Friday, July 21 2006 18:40
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XP is fairly complicated, but it actually seems to have a slimmer resource profile than I remember 2000 having; it's got less loose ends, less random resource problems, and is a LOT more stable. I've gotten maybe a dozen system crashes since I installed XP a couple of years ago, whereas with 2K the dreaded blue screen of death was a daily occurrance. I'd definitely update, even with a somewhat old computer - it's just hands-down a better OS. It's a little expensive, though. (And if you got a shortage on RAM - that stuff's like 5 dollars for a bajillion GB nowadays, isn't it?) Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, July 21 2006 18:42
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quote:Actually, NTFS dates back to the mid-90s with Windows NT. Windows 2000 was the successor to Windows NT and was originally designed for businesses. As for stability, the Win2k kernal is a lot more stable than the Win32 kernal. -------------------- "You're drinking liquor because you're thirsty? How nasty is your freaking water?" —Lazarus Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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Agent
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written Friday, July 21 2006 19:06
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WinXP boots up significantly faster than Win2k and runs more smoothly on the pivotal condition that your computer has memory to support the overhead that actually makes it more efficient. 512MB of RAM, 5GB+ free space on hard drive, and a current processor will be very good for simple tasks. Win2k and WinXP are built on basically the same KERNEL. Win2k was already a huge step up from the Jurassic NT series. I generally use NTFS because it is flashier and keeps copies of the most important sectors in the middle of the drive for emergency backup and recovery. WinXP, in my experience, is not a hassle at all if you are, or know someone who is, a computer enthusiast. -------------------- Thuryl: I mean, most of us don't go around consuming our own bodily fluids, no matter how delicious they are. ==== Alorael: War and violence would end if we all had each other's babies! ==== Drakefyre: Those are hideous mangos. Posts: 1415 | Registered: Thursday, March 27 2003 08:00 |
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Master
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written Friday, July 21 2006 22:46
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quote:Stable? Then I don't want to use Windows 2000... EVER. -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, July 21 2006 22:51
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Windows ME is even worse, I hear. XP trains a very stoic approach to life. "It might work. It might not work. It might stop working at any time. The best way to deal with it is not to scream." -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Saturday, July 22 2006 08:54
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quote:The relativity of things is fun, no? The most fun thing is, that I have 11 years old computer home, with Win 95 installed that gives error messages every 30 minutes or so. It *might* have something to do with all the dust inside, it's never been properly cleaned. Still, compared to my friends brand new computer with XP, it still seems stable as a 200 kg anvil on flat ground. -------------------- I have nothing more to do in this world, so I can go & pester the inhabitants of the next one with a pure concscience. Posts: 617 | Registered: Tuesday, April 13 2004 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, July 22 2006 09:41
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Ah good old Win95. "This program has performed an illegal operation and must be shut down." That message was the bane of PC users everywhere. Does anyone else remember the good old days of Windows 3.1? It took a lot of fiddling to get things set up (especially hardware), but once it was set up, I never had stability issues. In fact, Win3.1 is the only OS that I never needed to reinstall. All other OSes that I have used over the years (including MacOS X and Fedora Core 4) have needed to be reinstalled at some point to fix some error or another. [ Saturday, July 22, 2006 09:45: Message edited by: Tyran ] -------------------- "You're drinking liquor because you're thirsty? How nasty is your freaking water?" —Lazarus Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Saturday, July 22 2006 11:10
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Actually, it might have something to do with the hardware itself. Do you remember components older than five years that overheat in 5 minutes? I do not. Actually, our old computer is only few degrees warmer than room temperature, where as my friends is always at least 45 degrees celsius warm. He has to constantly watch the thermometer if he doesn't want his computer to blow up... -------------------- I have nothing more to do in this world, so I can go & pester the inhabitants of the next one with a pure concscience. Posts: 617 | Registered: Tuesday, April 13 2004 07:00 |
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Master
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written Saturday, July 22 2006 11:21
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Yes, that problem is what i had with my own PC. Being made in the backroom of some computer shop... we'll say some parts were loose *cough*. At a certain point my computer just froze after five minutes, also during start-up, in safe mode, we tried everything. Eventually we brought it to the shop. The man opened it, and the cooling fan simply dropped out. It wasn't attached proparly, and it didn't cool. The processor's heat (a Celeron...) simply caused the fan to melt down and drop off. And yueah, the good 'ol OS's as they once were. Without all the extra crap which make them unstable (or at least some of the OS's currently available). [ Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:22: Message edited by: Mc 'mini' Thralni ] -------------------- Play and rate my scenarios: Where the rivers meet View my upcoming scenario: The Nephil Search: Escape. Give us your drek! Posts: 3029 | Registered: Saturday, June 18 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Saturday, July 22 2006 13:26
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I never had to reinstall my Windows 3.1 operating system. On the other hand I learned to save early and often for when the system froze and I had to reboot. I could lose pages of work if I forgot to save. One difference between Mac and Windows was how much I could do while waitng for the system to boot up. With DOS 3.0 I could go get a soda and read a newspaper waiting for the system to come up. The hardware was so sensitive to power fluctuations that the system would regularly crash even when nothing was running. Posts: 4643 | Registered: Friday, February 10 2006 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Sunday, July 23 2006 01:59
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Hey, is everyone forgetting win98SE, i have it for about a million years now and did not reinstall it. although the whole system gets really slow somtimes but it's reliable - in slovenija we have a saying that goes something like: if you're slow, you can come very far. Well, i know it sucks in english, but it sound cool in slovene - alhough i'm sure it wouldn't to any of you ... :) -------------------- I don't care what you say, I'm punk and Hardcore all the way! Posts: 185 | Registered: Sunday, June 4 2006 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Sunday, July 23 2006 07:07
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Win98SE was a good OS, but I did have to reformat ans start over every now and then. In fact, Windows 98SE was such a success that Microsoft did not stop updating and supporting the OS until earlier this month, making it the longest officially supported version of Windows with the exception of 3.1, which was officially supported from 1992 to 2001. [ Sunday, July 23, 2006 07:08: Message edited by: Tyran ] -------------------- "You're drinking liquor because you're thirsty? How nasty is your freaking water?" —Lazarus Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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Guardian
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written Sunday, July 23 2006 17:10
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Strange that you had so many difficulties with Win2k, Alec. I still prefer it, and never had a crash or any error message, since I installed it. -------------------- Polaris Rache's A3 Site reformatted 2/3 done Rache's A3 Site, original version Posts: 1828 | Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00 |
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written Sunday, July 23 2006 19:35
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The best way to handle any tech problems with Windows (or any other OS you have trouble with) is to contact the RAM elves who live inside your computer (RAM comes in multiples of 8 because elves only have 8 fingers). It's so obvious I'm surprised you didn't try that first...I mean, what are you? Racist against short people? Somebody's gotta make those delicious cookies man... -------------------- I'm drunk as think as you not am I. Posts: 64 | Registered: Sunday, April 3 2005 08:00 |
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