You want to format your hard drive but Windows XP says it can't because the drive is busy even though nothing is running How do you Format C?

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to format c: get windows xp setup disk and boot up using that when you get to the step where setup asks you to choose the partition to put windows on, choose c: (probably the first one) and hit the indicated button to delete the partition (i think it's L) after that do a quick-format with ntfs and your c: will have been formatted.

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