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Name: ric
Date: May 5, 2001 at 11:47:11 Pacific
Comment: how can i format my hard drive to the command prompt?i saw this done once.after format and reboot up came the command prompt.
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Response Number 1
Name: Jim
Date: May 5, 2001 at 12:21:39 Pacific
Reply: You mean how to make the drive bootable after formatting, right? It's done by booting from a floppy and using the command sys c:
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Response Number 2
Name: fred6008
Date: May 5, 2001 at 22:02:38 Pacific
Reply: What you probably saw is FORMAT C: /s. I can't verify from personal knowledge that it ends up at C:\> but it well may.
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Response Number 3
Name: Richard
Date: May 7, 2001 at 07:34:14 Pacific
Reply: The commands for format of a HDD
Format c:
Format c:/s
Format c:/q
Format c: /u
Format c: /q /u /s
hope it helps
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Response Number 4
Name: TechGUY
Date: May 8, 2001 at 15:15:15 Pacific
Reply: If you are going to use above commands in combination use only
FORMAT C: /U/S
since unconditional format resets to FAT anyway and why use /Q when /U overrides the command anywhy?
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