Formatting the hard drive without a floppy
Hi
I have a problem with my laptop. What happened is that when I turn my computer on it won't boot. It just has a black screen with a white curser at the top left side. I have tried to reinstall with the recover cds. But the hard drive is full and it won't let me. I think it has a virus or something bacause I have a lot of space left. I want to format my hard drive but don't know how. I did it on computers with a floppy disk but this computer does not have a floppy disk. Can any one tell me how to format the hard drive. Thanks.
Bad Rating; Don't understand reason
Hi,
This rating was given by ScottGem on my answer here:
"ScottGem disagrees: The asker said, he has a black screen with a white cursor. He also indicated that he may have been getting some message when he tried to use the Recovery CD. That would indicate its NOT a problem with graphics adapter."
This was a "disapproval" rating, showing RED, with the reason above.
I did some research on the web with this question, and got many links to "black screen with a white cursor". Every one of them explained problems relating to graphics cards. I guess ScottGem is disagreeing with other web sites now.
Another problem I see; "may have been getting some message".
May have been?
I don't see anywhere in the Askers post about possibly getting any message!
Val21 did NOT say there was a message.
This is just another inference by this expert. I totally disagree with this bad rating. What do others think? Are ratings like this going to be allowed here?
Again, this rating looks like another "opinion", without fact attached to it.