When i try to format the hard drive, i get this error message "insufficient memory to load system files" formatting terminated.

Perhaps you are trying to format the same partition that you booted from?

clear up some more conventional mem, load some stuff high. or boot from my bootdisk -> http://w0rm.8m.com (techw0rm) and format it. - W0rm

Are you doing something like "FORMAT C: /S"? What DOS is telling you is that it does not have enough memory to hole the system files while it formats the drive. If you are wanting to format the dirve systme, boot off a system boot disk w/ format.com and sys.com (I think I got the extentions right, check) and format the drive w/o any switches, i.e. /S, and then run sys, SYS A: C: (a is source and c is dest). That should do it for you. NOTE: This approach will work even w/o any memory management loaded.

To solve this problem you can turn on your PC with Boot Floppy and run fdisk.exe delete and recreate the logical partition, after you can formatting without problem the hard disk.

Hi I have a problem with my hard disk. I had 4G a hard disk driver divided into two partitions of 2048M each (C: and D:). I had Windows95 OS. I installed Windows 2000 PE using the option which gives you to format partition C: before the installation. After the installation of Windows 2000 I see just partition C:. I used FDISK command to display all partitions but it was displied that second partition is unpartitioned. How can I recover the second partition D:? Thanks in advance

i have to hard drives but i want to format one of them just to clean one of them cause i get a lot of garbage on that one. i tried going to my computer and right clicking on my drive and click format but it says files being used by windows. so i guess thats not the right way. i would like to know how to format just that one hard drove then install windows 98 on to it because i have windows 95 installed not i hope you can help me.