win 98/win2k/system commander 1

[porabai]

Hello All

I have IBM PII pc with win 98 as primary and occupies 3gb and win2k as partition with 7gb. I had used system commander for partition and logging all the times win2k only. i plan to format my harddrive, but i am looking to boot thru cd which has win xp and try to format the whole hard drive and load win xp. but due to system commander i am not able to boot thru cd even after changing the booting sequence in setup. always the system commander prompts me to log to win98/win2k/boot thru floppy drive which is menu based and i always log to win2k. please kindly advise me as how to format my hard drive (i want to remove both o/s and load new one in ntfs format.

thanks in advance.
porabai

 

[who235]

You can try something like Darik's Boot and Nuke to totally wipe the drive, then go ahead with the XP install.

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Though I am confused as to why you can't boot from CD in the first place. . .

Anyway, DBAN is a pretty elegant solution to just about any hard drive formatting problem.

Hope this helps,
Martin

 

[porabai]

Thanks for the advice. I am even surprised too that i am not able to boot thru win xp thru cd even i after i changed the sequence 1st to cd and then to hard drive and then the floppy.

i believe the system commander overrides the booting sequence and takes the sequence created in it.

i will try the method u said and will update on this.

thanks once again

 

[porabai]

Hello All

Just wanted to update everybody and thanks for taking time to reply. Finally I am able to format the hard drive. I have done in the following way.
Had the winxp cd ready
rebooted the system and when system commander prompts i went thru the OS wizard and selected the partition for 3gb which has win 98.
formatted this drive first but warned me that i need booting disk after format which i said ok.

formatted the hard drive of 3gb. and rebooted.
inserted the winxp cd in cd drive and booted thru winxp and deleted the 2 partitions and formatted the harddrive of 10gb and successfully loaded the o/s and its working fine.