re: That won't work Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 12:02 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by sekirt (1447 messages posted) Paul, A virus, prank or accident triggering DELTREE or FORMAT from drive C:\ directed to drive C:\ should work. The program (command) once initiated, should run from memory and and finish the task. I've never tried this foolish exercise, so if you could explain otherwise, I'd like to know. sekirt On Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 10:23 am, Paul D wrote: >You can't format C: using the format.com file in that >location because the act of formatting C: will format the file you are using out >of existence, thereby terminating the process before it's completed. You can only >format C: from a bootable floppy or CD_ROM. > Paul D > > > Written in response to: That won't work (Paul D: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 10:23 am) Responses to this message: re: That won't work (retired: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 12:15 pm) re: That won't work (Paul D: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 1:34 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] format c: Bad command or file name (James: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 5:12 am) re: format c: Bad command or file name (Bob Harris: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 5:25 am) re: format c: Bad command or file name (Mac: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 5:28 am) re: format c: Bad command or file name (krishna: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 9:27 am) That won't work (Paul D: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 10:23 am) re: That won't work (sekirt: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 12:02 pm) re: That won't work (retired: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 12:15 pm) re: That won't work (sekirt: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 3:24 pm) re: That won't work (retired: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 3:44 pm) re: That won't work (sekirt: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 4:17 pm) re: That won't work (retired: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 5:19 pm) re: That won't work (Paul D: Sun, Mar 16, 2003, 1:34 pm) re: That won't work (Silas: Wed, Dec 10, 2003, 12:43 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum