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Format C Drive.
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Original Message
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Name: Santiago Ortiz
Date: July 25, 2002 at 18:24:11 Pacific
Subject: Format C Drive.
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Comment: I just formated my c drive and i would like to know how to install an os threw ms-dos cause every time i restart my computer thats what apears.
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Response Number 1
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Name: NONE
Date: July 25, 2002 at 19:53:55 Pacific
Subject: Format C Drive.
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Reply: (edit)you need a dos 6.22 boot disk
you can get it here at www.bootdisk.com
boot your computer with the disk then
type system c: and press enter then reboot with out the disk.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Dan Penny
Date: July 25, 2002 at 21:40:54 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)The command is sys c:, not system c:. Santiago, what appears? Dos? Have you already made your hard drive bootable with a sys command?
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Response Number 3
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Name: Mike Newcomb
Date: July 27, 2002 at 23:39:29 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Having formatted the HDD, it should be entirely empty unless you used the /S option to copy the system files across.
If you have the floppy's (usually 3) containg dos (I prefer version 6.??), loading the first and entering INSTALL should take you through the installation process. Alternatively maybe booting from it will do this automatically.
Good luck - keep us posted!
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Response Number 4
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Name: Dean
Date: August 3, 2002 at 04:20:24 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I would like to format c but need help, could you give me step by step instruction please.
This is for cleaning and for getting rid of any pos. viruses.
THANK YOU
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Response Number 5
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Name: Dan Penny
Date: August 3, 2002 at 05:45:15 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Dean Use a boot disk for the O/S you will be installing and boot with it. When you get the A:\> prompt type in; format/c c: The /c tells it to check any sectors which are marked as bad. Some third party utilities can mark sectors as bad if they have any difficulty at all reading from them. I've re-claimed sectors this way. Call it cheap insurance. Make sure you've saved anything you might want off of the drive beforehand.
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Response Number 6
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Name: Dean
Date: August 3, 2002 at 06:06:57 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Thanks Dan. What is O/S Iam new to this and still learning. I haven't got a clue with tech talk
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Response Number 8
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Name: Dean
Date: August 3, 2002 at 06:20:53 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If I type
Format/c c:
In DOS Mode would this delete everything on the hdd including viruses???
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Response Number 9
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Name: Dan Penny
Date: August 3, 2002 at 07:13:32 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)It should. There's a possibility of a boot sector virus remaining, but that can be taken care of using fdisk. Delete the existing partition, re-create it, make it active, then reboot and perform the format after using fdisk. If you need detailed help with this, visit the HOWTOS at the left of the page. It might be under Advanced, can't remember. This will give you step by step instructions. Remember to reboot when fdisk tells you to. That "stamps" the new information to the drive.
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