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    Boot T60p to DOS environment

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by utopian3, Aug 10, 2010.

  1. utopian3

    utopian3 Notebook Consultant

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    I have a Western Digital passport 250 GB external harddrive and i format it to NTFS and now i am trying to format it back to FAT32. I try to use window xp command to format it but fail since the hardisk larger than 32GB. I heard you can format it in the DOS environment without problems. So, Question???
    1. How to boot my T60P to Dos environment(i have a external floopy drive)
    2. After boot to DOS, How to format the external drive to FAT32.

    Thanks very very much! Appreciate all help!
     
    utopian3, Aug 10, 2010
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  2. Renee

    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    By DOS Envronment...I assume to mean the command line environment which is CMD.EXE?
    What you want/need is the format command which is part of booting the bios.
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    Renee, Aug 10, 2010
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