#Usb tools format pc windows xp for free#
#Usb tools format pc windows xp install#

C’est un code de 25 caractères que vous pouvez. Si vous souhaitez formater un PC Windows XP sans CD d’installation, vous devez utiliser la clé produit de votre ordinateur portable. If you had copied the format etc files to some device (ie, floppy, usb stick if booted that way and have it available at your bios) you can type that unit (ie, a:, intro), then type format c: and follow instructions. Assurez-vous simplement que votre périphérique de stockage (clé USB ou disque dur externe) ait suffisamment d’espace. There you can choose to boot in console mode (can't remember exactly how it calls it). If you have a sort of not totally devastated installation, you yet might have the ability to hit F8 key when starting the machine(hit it several times once you here the 'bip' of your machine when booting). You have a list of console commands in Windows here. (those great old floppy disks.)ģ) from the device where you have these files, type format c: If not possible, copy them to some device you will be able to read from console. They're found at your /system32 folder of your windows. That is, the files for format, and probably fdisk. You can do it with many tools, one that comes to mind is CDBurnerxp (there are many other solutions, like BartPE)Ģ) Ideally copy the needed console commands to that CD. If you want to just format it but don't want to reinstall another Windows, you can do the following (there are other ways) :ġ) In some other machine (unless you have yet active your Windows, would be better there) make a bootable CD or DVD. is an OEM installation) you may be able to get restore media by contacting the manufacturer. If your Windows installation came with the computer (i.e. If you want to reinstall Windows but don't have an installation disk, you will have to find a friend who owns one, or else try to buy one somewhere.

#Usb tools format pc windows xp install#

If you want to reinstall Windows, have an installation disk, and don't have a CD-ROM drive, you can install from a flash drive. If you need to actually format the drive (DBAN will completely wipe it blank), then you can use a tool like the Gparted live CD (which again, can be installed to a flash drive) to format the drive with any of a wide variety of file systems. It can also be set up to run from a flash drive if you don't have a CD-ROM drive. Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) works best for this.

#Usb tools format pc windows xp for free#

If you just want to wipe the disk, you can download a tool for free that will let you securely delete everything on the hard drive. It's also not clear if you just want to wipe the drive, or also want to reinstall Windows. It's unclear from your question whether you mean that you don't have the installation CD, or if your computer simply doesn't have a CD drive at all.