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Help! Cannot format C. Boot from bootdisk. A:\Format c: bad command
i created a bootdisk form windows 98SE of the computer.
I want to format c drive. Booted from the boot disk. Shift+F5 goes to Prompt. And got bad command after typing format c: Please help! |
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Help! Cannot format C. Boot from bootdisk. A:\Format c: bad command
You do not have a proper bootdisk there, probably only the lame one produced by
Windows 95/98/ME during software installation. Go to www.bootdisk.com and download the software to create the boot disk of your choice. Make the disk, then boot with it and try to format again... Ben Myers On 28 Jul 2006 18:01:16 -0700, wrote: i created a bootdisk form windows 98SE of the computer. I want to format c drive. Booted from the boot disk. Shift+F5 goes to Prompt. And got bad command after typing format c: Please help! |
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Help! Cannot format C. Boot from bootdisk. A:\Format c: bad command
No shift. No F anything. A bootable diskette takes you directly to a
command prompt. A bootable diskette (copy system files with windows explorer) does not contain the file fdisk.exe, whereas, a startup diskette does. -- Jonny wrote in message oups.com... i created a bootdisk form windows 98SE of the computer. I want to format c drive. Booted from the boot disk. Shift+F5 goes to Prompt. And got bad command after typing format c: Please help! |
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Help! Cannot format C. Boot from bootdisk. A:\Format c: bad command
wrote in message
oups.com... i created a bootdisk form windows 98SE of the computer. I want to format c drive. Booted from the boot disk. Shift+F5 goes to Prompt. And got bad command after typing format c: This is a normal DOS error message where the app you called (FORMAT) is not in the current filepath (which when no filepath is preset is whichever drive you are currently logged to.) Standard Operating Procedure = 1. Verify that the app you want to use (FORMAT) is available on the floppy drive. 2. Reboot from floppy. 3. To format C: key command A:FORMAT.COM C: The prefix A: supplies the filepath i.e. tells the PC where to locate FORMAT.COM The suffix C: tells FORMAT which disk you want to format. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Help! Cannot format C. Boot from bootdisk. A:\Format c: bad command
Shift-F5 actually is for Safe mode Command Prompt. Try using the arrow
to select "Command Prompt", pressing "Enter", then selecting "Start computer with CD support". Ben wrote in message oups.com... i created a bootdisk form windows 98SE of the computer. I want to format c drive. Booted from the boot disk. Shift+F5 goes to Prompt. And got bad command after typing format c: Please help! |
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Help! Cannot format C. Boot from bootdisk. A:\Format c: bad command
Somebody is impersonating me, or maybe there are two mes? ... Ben Myers
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:19:41 GMT, "Ben Myers" wrote: Shift-F5 actually is for Safe mode Command Prompt. Try using the arrow to select "Command Prompt", pressing "Enter", then selecting "Start computer with CD support". Ben wrote in message oups.com... i created a bootdisk form windows 98SE of the computer. I want to format c drive. Booted from the boot disk. Shift+F5 goes to Prompt. And got bad command after typing format c: Please help! |
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Help! Cannot format C. Boot from bootdisk. A:\Format c: bad command
сообщил/сообщила в новостях следующее: oups.com... i created a bootdisk form windows 98SE of the computer. I want to format c drive. Booted from the boot disk. Shift+F5 goes to Prompt. And got bad command after typing format c: Please help! |
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Help! Cannot format C. Boot from bootdisk. A:\Format c: bad command
Or, maybe CRS has set in and you actually made the other post ??? G
-- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Ben Myers" ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net wrote in message ... Somebody is impersonating me, or maybe there are two mes? ... Ben Myers On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:19:41 GMT, "Ben Myers" wrote: Shift-F5 actually is for Safe mode Command Prompt. Try using the arrow to select "Command Prompt", pressing "Enter", then selecting "Start computer with CD support". Ben wrote in message groups.com... i created a bootdisk form windows 98SE of the computer. I want to format c drive. Booted from the boot disk. Shift+F5 goes to Prompt. And got bad command after typing format c: Please help! |
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Help! Cannot format C. Boot from bootdisk. A:\Format c: bad command
"Jonny" wrote in message ... No shift. No F anything. A bootable diskette takes you directly to a command prompt. A bootable diskette (copy system files with windows explorer) does not contain the file fdisk.exe, whereas, a startup diskette does. -- Jonny It is not fdisk.exe he wants. It is format.com. Bad command means that the file was not found in the path. Format.com is found on the startup disk created with Windows 98SE. It is loaded into a RAM drive. It is not loaded if you choose Minimal Boot. If you do not make a choice, you go to the Help File. Shift-F5 takes you to the Command Prompt within the Help File. The underlying operating system is the Minimal Boot. You have to Choose CD Support/No CD Support to get the fully operational MS-DOS. -- Earl F. Parrish |
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