"gargoyle60" wrote in message
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 01:23:58 -0700 (PDT), Lee wrote:

I was told (yonks ago) that the /U option is an undocumented very
low-level format and can be slow.

/u Is A Lie

I aborted the forrmat and tried MS FDISK which said everything was already
correctly partitioned.
I did a "format c: /S" and it ran okay without any bad blocks being
reported. I shall avoid using /U
in future.
Now Windows98 has installed and starts just fine.

gargoyle60
You did a "format c: /S
That Is 100% Right

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