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    Jan 18, 2007, 04:50 AM
    How to format Hard drive?
    Yesterday I was rebooting my PC, I entered DOS Prompt and format my other partitions except C:, which was when formatted answer was that it is used by other programs. If somebody help me out?
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    Jan 18, 2007, 07:09 AM
    You can't format a partition from that partition. If you are trying to format your C partition you need to do it from a boot floppy.
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    Jan 19, 2007, 12:19 PM
    Thanks I did it
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