You'd need to determine if the CD-ROM was defective. Also, FDISK is not a formatting utility but a partitioning one that's rather dated. You might try downloading a bootable .iso from here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/
for just the basic stuff.
Hi,
I am using DELL LATITUDE D620. I want to format my hard drive(preferably thru FDISK). But, I am not able to boot from my CD. I went to BIOS and made changes but still not able to boot from CD. I referred MicroSoft Manuals . It says we need to have bootable floppy disks
which my laptop didnt have(no laptop can have
). How to proceed...?
Thanks & Regards,
Naveen

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