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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: goodnatureddog on April 26, 2007, 06:31:00 PM

Title: old gateway from 2000
Post by: goodnatureddog on April 26, 2007, 06:31:00 PM
my friend was giving away his old gateway from 2000, and all he had to do was reformat the harddrive. but since it ran on windows 2000, i couldn't figure out how to reformat it, so i tried to use a boot disk, but it turned out that it was from windows 95 and wouldnt read the drive. i have the computer now, but not the hard drive, and he said that if i could figure out how to reformat it he would give it to me, so could anyone help me out.
if you need more info just say so... thanks
Title: Re: old gateway from 2000
Post by: GX1_Man on April 26, 2007, 06:52:21 PM
What are you going to load on there?
Title: Re: old gateway from 2000
Post by: Hendrix on April 27, 2007, 12:00:39 AM
how to reformat it?

an installation cd, or disk. depending on what you wanna put on there, for example if you wanna load xp, you'll need xp os software, which costs money, or you can borrow one from somebody you know.
Title: Re: old gateway from 2000
Post by: goodnatureddog on April 27, 2007, 06:38:33 AM
thanks, i'll try that, i already have a copy of xp