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.

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

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

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Last edited by TeKnoHe@d2025 on May-05-2002 at 08:24

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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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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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?

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

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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

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