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I want to format my hard drive with /s but get an error message "Not enough system resources to format" Can you help??
try doing a clean boot by pressing F5 when the "starting ms-dos" etc message comes up. This should stop the loading of any drivers and tsr etc and so you should then have enough resources available
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Hi again... to late to try the "F5" I formatted without the /s and now I am screwed!! Please help!! I get "Unable to locate the operating system" message.
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Boot off of just about any type of boot disk and type:
sys c:
then you'll be right where you would've started with the /s format.
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I tried [sys c:] and still get the message "missing operating system" I also tried to setup my sd rom from the A DRIVE without success. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I bought ms dos 5.0 or 6.22, would that help in any way?? The system is a 486/66mhz
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I cannot get drive c: to boot up no matter what I do! I tried copying my boot disk to c: and all I get on start up is "missing operating system" PLEASE HELP!!
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The error message "No operating system" means just that - no operating stystem. Can't start something if it ain't there.Leave the boot floppy in the floppy drive, start the machine, at the A:\> type SYS C:
Use a boot/setup/startup disk of the same version of the operating system you intend to install. Mix and match versions at your own peril.
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I have a similar problem with my recently acquired second hand laptop (a 486 SLC with 4 MB of RAM and 1.2 GB of hard-drive)
I got a complete MS-DOS 6.22 set from Kewlone and, despite their excellent help page, this is what happened:
I formatted the C drive and, initially, got
this report:
a)1,356,070,912 bytes total disk space
b) " " available on disk
c) 32,768 bytes in each allocation unit
d) 41,384 alloc. units available on disk
e) Volume Serial Number is 3428-0901.Next, I managed to install DOS 6.22 (at least, that's what my screen reported)
Next, I tried a DIR listing; it did not work!
Then, I formatted the C drive again.
Now, I get the following report for categories a-e (as above):
a)528,171,008
b)527,958,016
c)8,192
d)64,448
e)290C-0BDEFinally, when I try to use the reboot-disk,
this message pops up on the screen:"Invalid media type reading drive C"
So, I seem to have lost half of my C drive and I cant get into the system.
Please, any one able to help??
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when it says invalid media type, it means that there is no system running on your drive. wither you F-DISKED IT or you clean formated it. now you have to get a windows startup disk, and type format/s c:
that should work for ya!
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Tushar
Thanks for responding.
Typing "format/s c:" does not seem to work.
FDISK resulted in the following:
Partition = C:1
Status = A
Type = PRI DOS
Volume Label = MS-DOS_6
Mbytes = 504
System = FAT 16
Usage = 100%To recap: I seem to have lost half of the original capacity of my C drive, and I cant manage to install DOS 6.22 on the remaining half.
Need some help. Skee
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damn man i installed windows 2000 pro and i got messed up or something again and i installed it again then when i tried formating it cant even find tha c:drive so if u can help me i whould really be thankful for your time and if it works ill send u windows 2000 pro :)
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