Hard Drive Problem - HELP!

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dfarrell1219

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Help - I got a Dell Latitude Laptop from a friend and decided to reformat it and start over. I got to DOS and did "c: reformat c:" It told me I had successfully reformated.

But....

When I rebooted and put in the Windows 2000 CD to reinstall, it said it could no longer read the C: drive.

I have the Win 2000 CD and the Dell Diagnostics CD but nothing seems to work.

Any ideas? Thanks!
 
There is no "reformat" command. So, what did you use to format? Also, you don't need to format outside of the windows setup as it has it's own format and partition utility built in.

You didn't give the error, but can windows setup see the drive at all? I could you go though and un-partition the drive, then partition and format though Windows setup?
 
and for your problem you have to set the bios to boot from the cdrom...so put the cd in and go to the bios set the boot sequence then save and exit
 
No Help

You're right I typed in "format" not reformat.

I did move the DVD drive up on the BIOS but when the WIN 2000 disk asked me to pick a partition to load the OS on it said there was nothing there - no HD.

Any other ideas.
 
If you just changed the boot order, that shouldn't affect anything else... Does the drive still show up in the bios? Are the settings correct or is it set to auto detect?
 
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