[Shotimes] Way OT: fdisk and format

[Mark Kelley]

Ian,

I'll refrain from commenting about her "harddrive".  I'm not sure about XP,
but my Win 2000 CD has a utility that creates the install diskettes with the
all the necessary files.  Your XP CD may have the same thing.

Mark

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:44:46 -0500 Ian Fisher <ianf@eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:

> I am building my g/f's computer here and I plan
> to install XP on it.
> Ummm..I managed to find a single floppy disk to
> create a startup disk (I
> am a CD-R kinda guy) but I need format and
> fdisk so I can format her
> harddrive (ok, no comments please) I looked
> around my copy of XP and
> can't find them. How and where can I go about
> finding them so I can
> finish this thing?
> 
> By the way, I am extremely jealous of her
> system
> 
> Mine:
> White case
> Pioneer 10X DVD (I think)
> HP 8200 CD-RW  (4x2x20?)
> PII 450
> 640 MB SDRAM
> Adaptec SCSI card
> Iomega SCSI zip (never use it; free from a Mac,
> along with the SCSI
> card)
> Seagate 7200 rpm 20gig HDD
> Western Digital (boo) 5200 rpm 6 gig
> Creative SoundBlaster Live! Value
> 3dfx vodoo 5500 (64MB) AGP
> Gigabyte board, I think
> USR 56K modem
> 3com 10/100 
> 17" SONY Trinitron
> 
> Hers:
> All black, everything..looks awesome
> Lite-On 40X DVD
> Lite-on CD-RW (don't remember the speed; fast
> though)
> P4 2.4 Ghz
> 256 MB DDR
> Seagate 7200 rpm 80gig HDD
> 6 channel on board audio
> ATI video AGP, I forget how much memory
> ASUS motherboard, Intel chipset with Northwood
> bridge
> V.92 modem
> 3 com 10/100
> NEC AccuSync (I think it's a rebadged SONY)
> 
> And much more
> This motherboard is awesome..I love ASUS
> boards..
> 
> I just knocked 50 CDRs on the floor :(
> 
> Ian
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