Hi, Could use a little help here.
I'm trying to reformat a hard drive on my Mom's older computer. It runs Win98, has cd rom drive and floppy drive. I have created a boot disk using the Windows create a boot disk feature. But it's my understanding that Win98 *is* a bootable cd on it's own. So, with all that said I have the Win98 cd in the cd rom drive, I put the floppy boot disk in the floppy drive and can boot fine into "start computer with cd rom support" and get to an A prompt. FDISK'ing shows me that it's got it's partition so I didn't mess w/deleting the one that's there. When I go to format at the A prompt using: format c:/s or format c: /s I get the error "bad command or file name". I have tried this with and w/o the boot floppy in the drive. I thought it was strange that there was no "format.com" on the floppy after I created it using the Windows98 create a boot disk feature. So, I did go to the Win98 cd and copied it onto the floppy. Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Deb www.puterbug.com ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
