I formatted my computer, and when i put the floppy disk in, it ends up bringing up this: A:/ And it wants a word...i dont know what that word is and it wont let me load the disk onto my computer....i need that stupid word and we've tried every one in the damn book! my computer wont load without it!

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Hi meighan:

Well, if you really "formatted your computer,"
then you have nothing left but a blank hard drive
-- there is no DESKTOP left to boot up to.

Your options are to reinstall the Operating System
yourself from your original Windows installation
disk(s), or to take your computer to a
knowledgeable friend (or a repair shop) who can
help you.

A wise man once said: "FORMAT is NOT a repair
tool."

A lot of people think "FORMAT" means a sort of
"tidying up" and "squaring away" of one's computer
files.  It doesn't.  It means "erase everything on
the whole computer."

Sorry.

Jerry

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Try "setup".

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On Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 11:21 am, meighan wrote:
I formatted my computer, and when i put the floppy disk in, it ends up bringing up 
this:                                            

A:/  And it wants a word...

What word is it asking for?

To reinstall Win95 you are going to need CD Rom drivers on your Boot 
Disk

If you don't have these then it can't reinstall of the CD. 

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Take it to a computer shop. They have unformatting utilities that can recover what you have destroyed. Bring your Win95 product disc with you. They will probably need that as well to help.

If you have DOS 5 or higher on diskettes you can boot from the first diskette and look for UNFORMAT.EXE. I just checked and it's not on the Win95 CD.

The next time you decide to carry out an option, DOS has a Help system and Windows has Start > Help and almost all DOS programs will explain themselves if you type /? after the name of the program. Indeed, you said you have a book on the subject? Didn't it explain what formatting is?

Here are details on the DOS UNFORMAT:

• Computer Hope -- "Microsoft DOS unformat command"

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