Hi!
As long as I remember on MS-DOS format /s is the
same as use FORMAT and later use SYS.
Transfer boot sector, hidden files and command.com
Actually when you use FreeDOS FORMAT /S it will
just do a normal format and then call your copy
of SYS. So it even requires the presence of SYS
in
As long as I remember on MS-DOS format /s is the
same as use FORMAT and later use SYS.
Transfer boot sector, hiden files and command.com
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Marco A. Achury
2008/11/11 kurt godel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just found out that the '/s' in 'format C: /s' formats the drive and leaves
Just found out that the '/s' in 'format C: /s' formats the drive and leaves
space for the system files from the 'sys'
command; but some say the sys com also transfers a copy of command.com,
while other sources don't! I can
tell you that 'format C:' does not place a copy of command.com, whereas
A quicky:
I noticed several references to: do a format, then a sys c:; is this
exactly the same as format c: /s? I have always
used the latter and never saw a conflict message in terms of
geometries,between the BIOS and fdisk; in fact, my
fdisk is so old that it seems to lack many options(one
