I currently have Windows 2000 on my computer. I want to format the drive.
It will not let me do it.
Can anyone help me with this?

You can do this one of two ways by using the Windows 2000 startup disks or if your computer supports a bootable CD-ROM -- most computers built since 2001 have this feature -- use the Recovery Console tool on the Windows NT/2000 CD-ROM. More on that shortly.

First, remember that reformatting a hard disk deletes all of the data that is on it, so make sure that you back up your data before you reformat the disk. That data is unrecoverable afterwards. It's gone forever.

To use the Windows NT or 2000 Recovery Console to reformat a drive, follow these steps:

Start the computer by using the Windows NT or 2000 CD-ROM (in the CD-ROM drive) or the start-up disks (in the floppy drive).
You need to go into your BIOS to change the boot sequence to do this making your CD-ROM drive your primary boot device.

Once the computer has booted from the CD you'll see a "Welcome to Windows Setup" screen appear and after all the drivers have loaded (shown along the bottom), press F10 or wait and choose to use the recovery console (choose item #2).

In the "Recovery Console", specify the appropriate Windows installation. It will be listed. It's probably #1. Then log on by using your Windows Administrator password. You are probably the administrator and the password if you have never assigned is probably blank, so just hit the Enter key.

Next, type:

map

and hit the ENTER key.

Note the drive that you want to reformat. The drive letters may be different in the Recovery Console from what they are in Windows NT or 2000, but if you want to reformat the C: drive then its likely the largest.

Next, type:

format C: /fs:ntfs

Or if you don't want to format C, use the drive letter of the hard drive that you want to format. Hit your ENTER key.

Next, type:

y

Then press ENTER to continue. When the formatting process is finished, type

exit

and then press the ENTER key to restart the computer.

Yet another way to format your HD, is to remove it from your machine, install in another PC as it's primary slave, (altering any links neccessary to identify it as SLAVE. This info will be on the drive casing, usually no need to remove any covers), start up second machine, go through SETUP autodetect, let it detect your HD, exit saving, run normal startup, go to My computer, right-click new drive, in the options choose FORMAT. Your HD is now formatted. Closedown, remove from second PC, re-install in first machine. Blank. Ready for whatever. On second machine, go through SETUP to remove it's memory of ever owning a slave. PC's can suffer from the middle-class guilt syndrome, and if you don't do this they can throw wobblers.

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