FORMATTING HARD DRIVE

[daz_a_boy]

hi everyone, could you help me?... im trying to format my harddrive but keep getting bad file command when i type format c;y (when using boot disc)is that incorrrect..please help... daz

[Diz]

try format c: not format c;

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[Jacko]

It can somtimes cause a problem if you have changed to the drive letter you want to format!

Try changing to your a: (then type "format c:" )

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[Boo Radley]

To make the Hard Disk bootable, you'll have to type from the command prompt:

A:\format_c:_/s ---> ("_" represents a spacebar)

This will format your HDD and transfer the system files from the floppy.

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[This message has been edited by Boo Radley (edited 05-27-2002).]

[Dazman]

I read some where that there /s switch doesn't work anymore is that true?

[Dazman]

I thought the /s switch no longer applied now..i thought that comand doesn't work anymore??

[iisbob]

Where did you here that?

They can't turn off a switch like a light bulb-it's part of the code of the program. Unless someone hacked that particular .exe, then it'll work as it was originally constructed.

I assure you that the /system switch still works just peachy.

But...there is no reason to use it when doing an install of Windows. Simply FDISK/FORMAT your primary partition and make sure you have real mode CD drivers loaded, then simply change yor directory to the CD and type " setup ". This is of course if you are using one of the 95 kernel OS's ( 95/98/ME ).

If you are using NT/2k/XP-just simply boot from the CD-it's much simpler than navigating to the \I386 folder and runing the Winnt command.

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iisbob

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[This message has been edited by iisbob (edited 05-27-2002).]