re: That won't work Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 3:44 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by retired (420 messages posted) Yes, you can enter that in DOS but did you run it the whole way? If you booted to DOS on the C: drive (no floppy), there will be a problem along the way as you are going to delete the system files used to boot. If you boot from a floppy it depends where the format program is located. If it is on A:, then no problem. If it is on C:, as I think you typed, then ultimately the program wipes itself out and when format finishes the program cannot exit gracefully. On Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 3:24 pm, sekirt wrote: >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 > > Written in response to: re: That won't work (sekirt: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 3:24 pm) Responses to this message: re: That won't work (sekirt: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 4:17 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