|
How to format?
|
View this Thread in Original format
| TeKnoHe@d2025 |
| 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. |
|
|
| webmeister |
| You need to create a boot disk, and boot the computer off that. You should be able to format it from there. |
|
|
| TeKnoHe@d2025 |
| Ok, I've made the bootdisk but I can't find out how to format from it. Any ideas? |
|
|
| DJ_Ballistic |
| 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 |
|
|
| Sandman |
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 |
|
|
| TeKnoHe@d2025 |
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?:whip: |
|
|
| yujie__ |
| u need to change bios to boot on A: drive. the best bootdisk is from windows98se. u can also boot of from XP cd. |
|
|
| Palivar |
I mandate that a picture this good has to be posted at least twice in the same thread.
 |
|
|
| tu_face |
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:) |
|
|
| Palivar |
 |
|
|
|
|
