can not format c drive

Original Message

Name: YasirNoman
Date: October 6, 2005 at 03:35:34 Pacific
Subject: can not format c drive
OS: XP SP1
CPU/Ram: 256

Comment:

Hi,
I did the Partitioning of the Hard disk and now I would like to format the drive c, I have created only one partition. but when i write camand format c: it give me error
"invalid drive, or format not supported"
can any one tell me what is a problem, thanks in advance.
regards
Yasir Noman

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Response Number 1

Name: plainandsimple
Date: October 6, 2005 at 05:29:14 Pacific
Subject: can not format c drive

Reply: (edit)

When booting from the XP CD it has all the required tools without using any version of MS-DOS.
You may receive a better response in the XP FORUM................

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Response Number 2

Name: RTolbertson
Date: October 11, 2005 at 00:01:30 Pacific
Subject: can not format c drive

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Another option that works very well.......
Go to Bootdisk.com and get there windows 98 OEM bootup disk
After you download this file and after clicking on it to activate it, you will be asked to insert a fresh 1.44mb floppy disk in your A: drive and this will make a bootup disk for you.
When finished, keep this floppy in your computer and reboot, the floppy will boot and give all kinds of tools available such as FDisk, Format
using this floppy
at the A:\> prompt
type
format C:
enter

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Response Number 3

Name: lukeles
Date: October 24, 2005 at 19:29:32 Pacific
Subject: can not format c drive

Reply: (edit)

May be your disk have physical error!!

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