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Posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 on May-05-2002 05:43:

How to format?

I'm trying to format one of my friends computer but I'm having some trouble getting it started. It keeps telling me I have files open on the disk. How do I stop getting this message and get the format running? Btw, it's running the Windows XP OS.

Posted by webmeister on May-05-2002 05:52:

You need to create a boot disk, and boot the computer off that. You should be able to format it from there.

Posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 on May-05-2002 07:52:

Ok, I've made the bootdisk but I can't find out how to format from it. Any ideas?

Posted by DJ_Ballistic on May-05-2002 08:45:

restart the computer in ms dos mode, then when u get to the command prompt type format c:\ (or whatever the drive name is) then when thats done, restart the computer with the boot disk in the floppy drive, the rest is pretty self explanatory

Posted by Sandman on May-05-2002 08:53:

Get a really big magnet and hold it near his hard disk... it should be empty then.. J/K

yup, get a boot flop and restart the pc with the bootflop. then typ format c: /q /s (/q /s means fast format, i think)

Sandman

Posted by TeKnoHe@d2025 on May-05-2002 17:47:

Grr...it's still not working for me. I created the boot disk, started the computer w/ it and tried like 100 combonations of format c:\ ...

Any further ideas?

Posted by yujie__ on May-06-2002 02:16:

u need to change bios to boot on A: drive. the best bootdisk is from windows98se. u can also boot of from XP cd.

Posted by Palivar on May-06-2002 08:35:

I mandate that a picture this good has to be posted at least twice in the same thread.

Posted by tu_face on May-06-2002 08:44:

ur just making a blank boot disk arnt you...

try putting some files on it... like format.com, fdisk.com (and all fdisk related stuff) scandisk (and all scandisk related files) etc etc...

then typing format c: /s /whatever might actually do something

another thing u could be doing wrong is goin to a DOS prompt and typing format c: /whatever at the c:\ prompt... go to ur a:\ drive then it will run the files off the floppy not off ur HD...

hope this helps

Posted by Palivar on May-06-2002 08:51: