On 03.03.2006 16:04 UK Time, Gary S. Terhune wrote:
The other logical conclusion that can be drawn from your results is that
there is no C:\ hard drive partition available. That would make the RAM
drive C:\ and it would be unformattable.

Hi Gary,

I am somewhat confused now.

I definitely have a C: drive, and I am using an official MS Windows 98
boot floppy.

When I boot from floppy, I get the result indicated earlier, i.e. the CD
drive is reported as D:

I can see the contents of the A, C, and D drives via

A:
dir
C:
dir
D:
dir

But the command "format C:" results in a "Bad command or file name" error.


Run FDISK and see what it says you have for hard drive partitions. If you
find a hard drive listed in FDISK, remove all partitions on it and then
create a new one. Once the procedure is done and you've restarted, then run
FORMAT C:


As expected, FDISK reports the C: drive as a single partition (FAT32)
with a capacity of 6194 MB.

It also says Status "A" and Type "PRI DOS" - not sure what this means.

What next?

Thanks

Herbert Eppel
www.HETranslation.co.uk