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DOS学习入门 & 精彩文章（教学室） » [Help]!!! Problem formatting a hard disk

Floor1　的	Posted 2003-07-19 00:00
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I used the universal boot disk provided by the moderator to enter DOS and typed the command format f:/q It displayed CANNOT FORMAT AN ASSIGNED OR SUBSTED DRIVE The hard disk format is NTFS Question for the moderator and the experts here: what exactly went wrong that caused me to be unable to format it? What do I need to do to successfully format my F drive??? Thanks everyone

Floor2　沈洁	Posted 2003-07-19 00:00
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format does not support NTFS partitions! If you want to format it, it's best to use a Win2000 or WinXp boot CD to delete the original partition and then rebuild it. This is the fastest method!

Floor3　的	Posted 2003-07-19 00:00
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Delete the original partition? You don't mean formatting the entire hard disk, do you? Can I directly format away the contents of the drive I want to format, for example just format the F drive alone?

Floor4　pfox	Posted 2003-07-19 00:00
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The following is quoted from ’s post at 2003-7-19 10:00:53: Delete the original partition? You don't mean formatting the entire hard disk, do you? Can I directly format away the contents of the drive I want to format, for example just format the F drive alone? Using spfdisk you can format an NTFS partition. If you want to change that partition to FAT32, use spfdisk to change its id to FAT32, then format it, and that partition will become FAT32 format.

Floor5　沈洁	Posted 2003-07-19 00:00
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Use a Win2000 or WinXp boot CD to delete the original partition. You can just delete the C partition that you want to format! Then recreate the C partition! Wouldn't the original data on the other partitions still remain there! Who told you to delete them all! This is the fastest way!