RE: Turning you com off at the mains
I just thought I would add some information in here as well. AE if the PC is frozen then hold in the power button on the front, after 10seconds or so it should turn off. Now for formating the PC and reinstalling windows xp/2k on an NTFS partition you will need a Windows 98 boot disk. Once you have that insert the floppy and restart. At the A:\> type in format c: /autotest /q and press enter. That will quick format the drive for you.
Then once it is done type in smartdrv and press enter.
Then put in your Windows cd and then type this
e: and press enter
cd i386 and press enter
winnt
it will copy installation files to the HDD then once it reboots it will ask where you want to install windows and which partition you will be given an option to choose NTFS
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