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format c: /u or format c: /s?
Name: Vien Date: July 22, 2005 at 19:20:19 Pacific OS: Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 256MB R
Comment:
Hi everyone,
I am a little bit confusing when we need to use the "format c: /u" command? "/u" mean "Unconditional" format, right? I understand the "format c: /s" command. It is used to format the active drive and copies the system files to the hard disk.
Name: jboy Date: July 22, 2005 at 20:16:57 Pacific
Reply:
The system switch isn't normally necessary if you intend to install an Operating System - and most people do - that will be taken care of during the installation process. If you have some oddball 'swappable' FDD & CD combo, then you might need to make the HDD bootable first.
It's not absolutely necessary to use any switches with format
Format /?
.. gives a brief outline of the command line parameters
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