"gargoyle60" wrote in message
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I have an old desktop PC in which I have been swapping HDDs.
Previously one of the drives, a 4.1GB, was used with Linux, which now I
want to reload Windows 98.
I have since used a GParted LiveCD to delete/recreate the partition table
and have created a single
Fat32 primary partition for the entire 4.1GB.

Now I have used an old Windows98 startup floppy disk and run:
format c: /u
It shows:
Formatting 4.102.5M
Trying to recover allocation unit 69,656


C:FORMAT C: /s

CAUTION: All data on non-removable disk
drive C: will be lost!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)?

Yes
It will DOS Systems On C:


This has been running now for about 3 hours. It's an old desktop PC,
Pentium II, 350MHz, 750MB RAM.
The machine is slow so I expected it to take a while.

No FORMAT C: /U Commands

/U parameter performs an UNCONDITIONAL format,
which DESTROYS every byte of data on a disk
by overwriting it with with blank spaces

About a hour Or More "Per - GB"

In A list of available Commands

There isn't a "u"
but there is a "v"
which is for label

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/95964-45-format

Can anybody suggest how much longer this might take to complete
formatting?
Thanks


Windows98 startup On
Pentium II, 750MB RAM To Big Win98
Go With 64 to 250MB RAM

After Windows 98 startup
Then Go Back To 750MB RAM



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