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Formating my Hard drive through DOS

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Name: Ken
Date: April 4, 2000 at 09:33:58 Pacific
Comment:

It still will not format I get a Incorrect MS-DOS Version message



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Name: Doug
Date: April 4, 2000 at 10:38:54 Pacific
Reply:

Ken,

If you are trying to format a hard drive that still works-you can boot up to it, in DOS;

Stick a clean floppy in the A drive

type SYS A:
or
Format a: /s

Either one will work.

Then copy Format.com from C:/DOS to your floppy.

If the hard drive was used for Windows 95 before, then Format.com will be in;

C:\windows\command

Then leave the boot disk in your A drive and reboot.

When it boots up to your A: drive, type;

FORMAT C:

don't add the /s, part, if you have the DOS 6.22 installation disks they do all the transferring of files for you. You don't want to put system files from an earlier or later version of DOS on your hard drive.

After the format is done and you have answered all the questions about renaming the drive etc.

stick DOS 6.22 disk 1 in the puter and reboot.

It should begin the installation then.


For that matter, you could probably skip the whole bootdisk deal, type;
format C:
from the hard drive and when that all finishes, stick your DOS 6.22 disk 1 in and reboot.

Doug


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Response Number 2
Name: Ryan Cooley
Date: April 4, 2000 at 15:47:31 Pacific
Reply:

You will have your same problem if you use
the above suggestion. Go to
http://www.bootdisk.com/ and download a
bootdisk for your system, then boot up with
it in the drive and format from there.


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Response Number 3
Name: Preston
Date: April 4, 2000 at 19:53:27 Pacific
Reply:

MicroSoft sure tries to make life hard for people. What is happening here is the when you run format.com, it checks to make sure that the DOS version that is running in your computer matches the DOS version that your format.com was made for. If the versions don't match, then format refuses to run.

So, if you are running DOS 6.22 on your computer and you try to use format.com from DOS 5.0, the format.com displays the Incorrect MS-DOS Version message.

I usually check the file date to see whether different DOS programs go together. If command.com and format.com have the same date, then they should go together.


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Response Number 4
Name: The Rastaman
Date: April 9, 2000 at 03:20:28 Pacific
Reply:

Run FDISK, create Primary DOS partician using the maximun disk available then FORMAT then disk with your current DOS.

One Love
The Rastaman


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Response Number 5
Name: omair rashid
Date: July 26, 2000 at 11:19:40 Pacific
Reply:

its realy a low version i dont get the particion


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