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by hylo Dec 25, 2002 last reply Mar 27, 2003

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I have a question,I have windows 98se installed on my computer with 256 SDRAM and a P4 1.7Ghz cpu and I went to do a reformat on the drive using these commands format c: /s/q/u. It comes up with a message that says not enough memory to copy over system files, this happens in Dos mode. Did anyone have this sort of problem and why and how does this happen. Thanks.

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by ann777 Dec 26, 2002

I believe the /u option is the same as the /q option (depending on your OS).

You are asking your Windows 98 to to a format of the c: drive and put the system files on it (/s) and do it quickly (/q) and without the option to unformat (/u).

Try:
Format c:/s/u

It should work fine (I believe /q is an option in WinNT and above).

by hylo Mar 27, 2003

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by syscokid Dec 26, 2002

You should be doing this from a floppy boot disk, not booting from the hard drive in DOS mode.

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by thechas Dec 26, 2002

You are getting the error because you are trying to format the drive with the sorce files for the system on it.

You need to boot from a DOS boot disk, or a W98 startup disk in order to perform a format of the C: drive.

Since it looks from yourother questions that you are planning to upgrade to XP, I suggest that you run fdisk from the W98 startup disk, and delete all partitions.
Then, boot from the XP CD, and setup your hard drive as desired from within the XP setup dialog.

Chas