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Format my hard drive

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by dcrish 1 view

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I don't have a recovery disk and would like to format my hard drive on an old pentium75.

It has Win98. Please tell me how to do it correctly.

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by dmiles

First start with creating a start up disk,Open Control Panel,double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon,select the Startup tab and it will prompt you to install floppy.
Insert floppy in A:drive and CD,at the command prompt enter c: /s

by dcrish

I posted this message on another site and someone told me to type

C: /U.

Coupled with my knowledge of DOS, I was able to make it work. But just so that I'll know in the future, can you tell me what C:/S means? In other words, what does theswitch /S do?

Thanks for your answer, and I'm sure it would have worked also.

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