re: That won't work Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 4:17 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by sekirt (1447 messages posted) No, as stated, would not try that. Yes, from experience, I think you are right, an error should come come, something to the effect COMMAND.COM cannot be found....... But I am still under the impression that files will have dissappeared. sekirt On Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 3:44 pm, retired wrote: >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. > > Written in response to: re: That won't work (retired: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 3:44 pm) Responses to this message: re: That won't work (retired: Sunday, March 16, 2003 at 5:19 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