re: That won't work Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 12:15 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by retired (420 messages posted) Try it yourself. boot to a floppy. Switch to the C drive and then to \windows\command where format program is located. It should say format C: is invalid. You will be overwriting the system used to initiate the process and that is a no-no. Among other things, the pointers to command.com get lost. On Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 12:02 pm, sekirt wrote: >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 > > > Written in response to: re: That won't work (sekirt: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 12:02 pm) Responses to this message: re: That won't work (sekirt: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 3:24 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