Formatting Hard Drive - Help!
I've recently acquired a friends laptop and want to format the hard drive, but can't!! It is running XP, FAT 32.
Having created a boot floppy, when I start with the floppy in, it comes up with a ''disk I/O error''
When I try to get the C: prompt both in normal and safe mode, I get
''C\Documents and Settings\owners name> This makes commands such as 'fdisk' unusable and after 'format' is says that the volume is used by another process.
My question is, how can I get the C: prompt to format the drive?? Am I doing something wrong??
Thanks, I'm not great with PCs but can follow simple commands!