re: Reformatting 98- Problems Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 12:46 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by m.lawrence (69 messages posted) Maybe a computer of the type you described requires a different process,but when formatting my hard drive I press F8 as the computer boots(no floppy in drive)Choose command prompt only,and at the prompt type format c: After it's done,ensure bios is set to boot from cd-rom as first boot,stick in win whatever and that's it. On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 12:32 pm, Josh wrote: >While trying to reformat a Presario 5020 running Windows 98 first edition with a >standard Win 98 boot disk, I typed at the a:\> format c: /s/u/v. >The message came back- Insuffient memory to load system files. Format terminated. > I tried two different boot disks with the same results. Any advice, please help. Written in response to: Reformatting 98- Problems (Josh: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 12:32 pm) Responses to this message: re: Reformatting 98- Problems (dan: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 2:17 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Reformatting 98- Problems (Josh: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 12:32 pm) re: Reformatting 98- Problems (m.lawrence: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 12:46 pm) re: Reformatting 98- Problems (dan: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 2:17 pm) re: Reformatting 98- Problems (peter: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 2:50 pm) re: Reformatting 98- Problems (Gerry Kroll: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 3:36 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