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   Message 941 of 2,222   
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   Re: reformatting a drive   
   19 Oct 06 18:14:40   
   
   From: to_abuse@yahoo.com   
      
   In article , LenBum@optonline.net says...   
   > Try going into explorer.Highlight My Computer and the various drives will be   
   > shown in the right panel. Right click on the drive and a menu will drop down   
   > with Format as an option.   
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   > "Holly"  wrote in message   
   > news:Xns985FB39DAECBAewrfdgrstnet@140.99.99.130...   
   > >I have a slave drive I want to reformat, what is the best way to do this ?   
   > > I remember fdisk from windows 95 days, do people still do this ?   
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   Or, as us old DOS guys do...format it from a bootable DOS prompt...   
      
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