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Hmm i've been using format c: not FORMAT C: /s should I be using that? or are they the same things?
Thanks.
I can't remember exactly, but it has something to do with the drive not being fully formatted if you don't include the /s. I think the /s gets all the unseen files or something
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Ok so this is why my computer seems to get a tad bit slower every time I reformat... Thanks alot for the help i'm going to go format AGAIN hehe, and this is the last time too hopefully.
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The /s copies the system files to the C: drive to make it bootable. Don't use the command on your other partitions just the C: where you are installing your OS to. on the others just use the format command only. Formating a drive should not make it slower! are you running a virus scan and keeping it's DAT and search engine updated weekly? If not you may have a virus!
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Yep they are the same. All the /s does is copy the basic system files to the disk to make it bootable
Hope this helps
Dave Jerome
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Ok just got done formatting now I kinda whish I waited (no offence to you dj)
And no I do not have virus software but I did do a free online virus scan at housecall and they said I have no viruses. The reason why I dont use virus protecters is cause my computer is not new lets just put it that way, so it needs everything, and stuff like norton really drains ram and really slows it down.
See I have a problem with formatting I think it has actually became kinda fun in a sick sort of way... I must have formmated this computer oh say about 30 times in the last two weeks or so. I've gotten to the point where if I download a file like say kazza, ill start getting peranoid about all that stuff it put in my system then do a format, or ill download that cacheman (for the desprate) and see when I uninstall it, it still keeps the same slow settings and then you know what happends next.
So as you can see I have issues lol, I have too say no more formatting! and try to resolve problems by not formatting.
Oh yea about it getting slower, it seems every time i format the computer seems too make more noise and it loads stuff a little slower, but this just might be my crazyiness again.
Thanks for all the help.
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If you manage to boot up your system and get it running, from then on it makes no difference whether you achieved this by using either format c: or format c:/s
I don't know why your system keeps getting slower but I am certain it is nothing to do with whether /s was used or not during formatting.
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format c: /s is a combination of two DOS commands
(1) format c:
(2) sys c:The /s switch is unnecessary when you format the c: drive because when you install the OS in it after formatting, the OS setup program will automatically sys the c: drive to make it bootable.
We normally use format a: /s to format floppy disks and make them bootable, though most people will format floppy disks in Windows instead of doing it in DOS.
If you intend to have a clean installation of an OS in c: drive, you can use the quick format:
format c: /qwhich just deletes all the files and directories in the drive and therefore is much faster than format c:
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The command to erase everything on yr hard drive is format C: /u
this, formats everything on the drive and doesn't make a backup, U see, if you type format c: windows makes an undo file on yr harddrive incase you delete something u didn't want to.
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Thanks for all the info every one. I formatted again hehe and i'm not going to do it again, no matter how tempting that format:\ u is.
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