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formatting hardrive
Hello,
I am trying to format my latitude CPi. I am running win 98. I have deleted the previous partition and created a new one. After that I tried to format the harddrive using the command A:\> format C:/s and it says Bad command or file name. Is this normal and what can I do to format the hardrive?
Thank you
- www.bootdisk.com Also, I went back and looked at your first message again. It appears that you have left a space between the arrow and the "f" in format. No space there, only between the "t" and the C: DOS can be very picky about the commands it will accept.
Message Edited by leduke30 on 02-02-2004 09:23 PM
- If you have access to a PC running W98, you can make a Boot Disk In Control Panel/Add-Remove Programs and click the Startup Disk tab. The boot disks you have made should work, but the Floppy is not finding the necessary system files for some reason. Bad lot of Disks?? As I said I went through 4 before I got one that worked. Also, are you sure the Floppy drive is 1st in the Boot order? The harddrive in its present unformatted state would be perceived as an Invalid disk, if the boot order is set for it ahead of the floppy, or if the Floppy is defective and BIOS is not even picking up its presence. It is hard to diagnose a problem's cause this way. A final question; are you using the floppy drive in the bay or on the Cable to the Parallel port?
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Posted February 4th, 2004 16:00
Try this, download the file to your desktop. run it and it will make a bootable floppy disk with format and fdisk.
http://support.dell.com/filelib/Format.aspx?ReleaseID=R19775
I suggest you format the floppy disk first.
Thank you very much for all of your help. I was a stick in the mud without it. Now I have my latitude formated but now when I am setting up windows 98 it says
"Windows did not find any existing real-mode PC card drivers. Either you did not have any, or you have drivers that Windows couldn't detect"
What should I do now?
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Posted February 1st, 2004 23:00