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How do I Format a MS-DOS partition
Name: Jose Date: June 10, 2002 at 21:25:28 Pacific
Comment:
I tried everyting and I cant come up with it I really need help.
Name: Ronin Date: June 10, 2002 at 22:02:54 Pacific
Reply:
At the command prompt just type format [drive]:
Format is an external program so it will have to be in the path of the drive that you use it on. On a boot disk for example, it *should* be located in the root directory of A:
A:\>format c: just make it ready for data
A:\>format c: /s make it bootable and ready for data
If you're using fat 32 parts, you should use the format version from the dos underlay of win 95b or greater located in.
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