I don't have a problem installing operating systems on hard disks ,I have been building and upgrading my own machines since the original pentium first came out,the problem I have is to format a hard disk and thereby remove a corrupt operating system from same, it has a broken XP installed upon it,I want a clean formated disk,I could try and format it using a old win98 rescue floppy,that would work but I don't think it was designed to deal with the size of modern hard disks,from past experience t reports the size as incorrect,the problem is the windows 98 CD will not format it because it scans the hard disk see the disk already formated and has a later operating system and refuses to do anything,I cannot format it from the XP disk because it is not a bootable disk.
Hmmm just had a thought can I install the duff hard disk as a slave to the new hard disk and format it from the new primary hard disk?,think I tried this once with a win98 disk but it did not work,mebee it will work with XP.
Bring back Dos I say
