re: That won't work Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 3:24 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by sekirt (1447 messages posted) Often I think in terms of DOS rather than strictly Windows. In a Dos window, I get:   C:\FORMAT C: WARNING,  ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE  C:  WILL BE LOST! PROCEED WITH FORMAT (Y/N)?   So, you are making a distinction then? sekirt On Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 12:15 pm, retired wrote: >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. > > Written in response to: re: That won't work (retired: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 12:15 pm) Responses to this message: re: That won't work (retired: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 3:44 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