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Dear Sir,
I had a widows 98 in my pc (P3,500mhtz,65mb ram,6.2 hard disk, Dell brand).Last week I upgrade the system to win2000, after a while a found that my pc became very slow and I think its becuase of the win2000 need more resouce from my pc. So, I decided to returen to my win98,(actualy I formated my pc and after that I installed win2000, its not upgrade) . when I decided to retuen to win98 I try to format my hard again becuase win2000 have a spceial file system deffernt from win32. Usually I make a cold booting from startup flooby and after that I format and install the win98 from the cd. But I found that MY PC DOSNT ACCEPT THE FORMAT COMMAND .. and its give me a massge of ((( bad command or file name))) ??/!!!
So, I connect my hard to another pc and format it from the windows and after that attached it again to my pc.BUT ITS STILL DOSNT ACCEPT THE FORMAT COMMAND .. :=((
Can you pls kindly tell me why ??
I think its virus action ??
Best regards
Did you run Fdisk and delete the partitions and create new before formatting?
Also at the A:\>type fdisk \mbr.
Mesich
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Hi all,
Mesich... some miswriting: fdisk /mbr (not backslash I guess)
Isn't the hard disk formated NTFS? so, you won't be able to run any Dos command!!!
Destroy any partition... fdisk or even delpart.exe
Gérard from Paris, France
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Yes, delete the partition with DELPART and repartition with fdisk.
http://hercules.lss.ksu.edu/download/MSSTUFF/delpart.exe
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When using fdisk, delete the non-dos partition first. Then install active dos partition. Then format. Or use a disk utility to do a low level format and then fdisk and format.
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A true low Level Format (LLF) would not be advisable on a current/recent drive; not at all recommneded - probably would wreck the drive. What is generally referred to as an LLF is more a Mid Level Format (MLF); this writes zeros to the drive and sets it back to factory gate state - more or less. Each manufacturer has its own version; and it is advisable to use the one for your drive and not another manufacturer's.
Details on this whole issue:
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/geom/format.htm
Left column list all the topics re formats...
Fdisk will only remove Primary ntfs; if you have it in Extended areas then you can delete it using W2K setup\create/delete partitions option. You can delete all partitions this way, then close out and reconfigure/format drive for '98 using Fdisk/format utils via '98 boot-disk..
You can also use the delpart.exe util referred to already in above reply; it deletes just about any partition - permanently. It's run from a DOS (a:>\) prompt; afterwhich you use Fdisk/format utils to reconfigure/format the drive for '98.
Fdisk tutorial/guide:
http://www.compguystechweb.com/index.html
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q255/8/67.ASP
W2K uninstall guide (for future use...):
http://www.budja.com/w2k/uninstall_w2k.html
covers most options.
Useful '98 (re-)install site (Bob's) - lots of useful info there too:
http://www.btinternet.com/~robert.bale1/formatinstall.htm
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