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   Message 942 of 2,222   
   relic to Drumstick   
   Re: reformatting a drive   
   19 Oct 06 22:36:20   
   
   From: spamcop@relic211.cjb.net   
      
   Drumstick wrote:   
   > 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...   
      
   Us old NT guys want NTFS.   
      
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