formatting a drive in DOS

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formatting a drive in DOS

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Name: Hammaad
Date: September 7, 2002 at 08:01:11 Pacific
Subject: formatting a drive in DOS
OS: win98/xp
CPU/Ram: PIII 1000 mhz 128 RAM

Comment:

can u just tell me what's the command to format a drive? tell me the command in DOS (MS-DOS) thanx!

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Response Number 1

Name: Messiah
Date: September 7, 2002 at 08:47:09 Pacific
Subject: formatting a drive in DOS

Reply: (edit)

format [driveletter]:
e.g.
format c:
that should do it, but you have to make sure the format.exe is on the media you've booted with
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Response Number 2

Name: Dan Penny
Date: September 7, 2002 at 22:57:23 Pacific
Subject: formatting a drive in DOS

Reply: (edit)

If you're going to format, add the /c switch. It re-checks sectors on the media which are currently marked as bad.
format/c c:

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Response Number 3

Name: Ravi
Date: September 9, 2002 at 08:13:16 Pacific
Subject: formatting a drive in DOS

Reply: (edit)

Format DriveName
eg
Format C:
Check format/? for more option

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