Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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.
Last edited by TeKnoHe@d2025 on May-05-2002 at 08:24
May-05-2002 07:52
DJ_Ballistic
Nu-NRG Addict
Registered: Oct 2001
Location: Sydney, Australia
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
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May-05-2002 08:45
Sandman
Motorcycle addicted
Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Planet earth
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)
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May-05-2002 08:53
TeKnoHe@d2025
Derek Howell Addict
Registered: Jan 2001
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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:\ ...
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May-06-2002 08:35
tu_face
No Known Cure...
Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Sheffield, UK
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...
How to format?
