format hard drive without pc?????

[Ultimate_Fusion]

I have a hard drive and there is nothing wrong with the components but i can not format. windows says it is unaccessable. I think it is a major bug but i need to format the drive to use it.

any ideas?

[Nuttapper]

your not running fat32 are you and the drive is formatted NTFS?

[Neo]

If you want to format the hard drive without a PC, then run a magnet across the top.

Permanent damge is highly possible though :)

[PhilEnfield]

Have you partitioned it ?

Also what OS and where is it it fitted ? i.e. Pri Slave Sec Mstr ?

Have you tried from DOS, using a W98 start up disk ?

[Zac]

boot to dos run fdisk and delete and recreate your partitions. This should sort things out

[Neo]

Am I the only one that notices that he wants to format his hard drive without a pc? Hence the title.

It would be nice if you would of provided some info on your "major bug" too.

[emailrob]

but if windows says it is unaccessible, the pc must be able to boot!
ultimate_fusion, more info is deffo needed here

[xdeity]

use a win 98 start disk, boot into dos, run fdisk, delete all partitions, then re format. then you will have a fat 32 disk. if you are then using win xp, you can either load xp as fat 32 and once loaded bring up the dos prompt and type
CONVERT C:/fs:ntfs
Where C: is a name of the drive you want to convert.

or you can change it to ntfs while installing windows, but i think that is much slower

[Ultimate_Fusion]

do u know where to get a start up cd. i found one but you need to do about tens things to the files before burning and i am lost.

[PhilEnfield]

You can create a W98 start up disk on any PC that is running W98.
It doesn't need burning it's a floppy disk.

[seracca]

Or you can download one here

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

[Zac]

Or if you want to boot from a CD nero will let you create a boot CD but you still need the boot floppy to do it