dear friends i have a hard western 30giga . some one is protect it from dos ?means if i try to format it , the format is complete but when i restart i find every thing is found and the windows work ( the format is do nothing ) and if i delete the file it's come back when i restart i have found the message means use dos to do it , i do every thing and use more programs to remove this protect but nothing happened how is this protect comming and how i remove it thanks all

Hi Who installed the hardware in the computer, and who installed the Windows ME on the computer. This is a drive in your computer? or is this 15G drive been given to you?

dear thanks. my problem is how this protect is found and how i can remove it???? you can say some one do it . my hard s30 giga . can you help

Hi Doe's it go through the full format procedure, ie. with warnings and asking you for a volume label ect. There are programs on the net for wiping a hard drive clean ie. WipeOut, ZapHD. These wipe out the any partition info on the MBR (Master Boot Record) so you could try "Fdisk /mbr" at the dos prompt to rewrite the mbr, and see if you can then format it.

The operating system is protecting itself. You can't format the system drive that you just booted from. You need to boot the computer from a floppy or cd rom, then format the hard drive.