Any way to refformatte disk?

The Shadow · December 22nd, 2004

this may sound like a noobish question,but is there any way to refformatte the
local disk without the operating system's cd?
thanks.

**Kirby** · December 22nd, 2004

Ranish Partition Manager can probably do it

http://www.ranish.com/part/

Cid Highwind · December 22nd, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirby

Ranish Partition Manager can probably do it

http://www.ranish.com/part/

Is it only command-line based? (I'm not very good at such stuff

)

The Shadow · December 22nd, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kirby

Ranish Partition Manager can probably do it

http://www.ranish.com/part/

great,i'll give it a shot.
thanks alot.

**Kirby** · December 22nd, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cid Highwind

Is it only command-line based? (I'm not very good at such stuff

)

nope....it has a GUI

Cid Highwind · December 22nd, 2004

Thanx, I think it will be usefull to me as well then

Phoenix · December 23rd, 2004

Partition Magic is pretty fast formatting a HD. Nice GUI and user friendly.

sportster00 · December 23rd, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Shadow

this may sound like a noobish question,but is there any way to refformatte the
local disk without the operating system's cd?
thanks.

Hi, if what u want is just to format your local harddrive, exit to DOS from your windows and type "format c:".

**n_w95482** · December 23rd, 2004

The problem with using that method is that it's limited to FAT32.

**hushypushy** · December 23rd, 2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by フェニックス

Partition Magic is pretty fast formatting a HD. Nice GUI and user friendly.

unfortunately, it isn't free

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Phoenix Ada... Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: GDL, MX Posts: 2,229	Partition Magic is pretty fast formatting a HD. Nice GUI and user friendly.