Erasing the hard drive

1) You need to make a Bootable DOS Disk.
C:\format a: /s
2) You need to copy from C:\DOS, fdisk.exe
and format.com to A:\, newly created boot
disk.
3) Reboot PC and verify you bootup on boot
disk. A successful boot should show
A:\ indicating you booted up on A:\ drive.
4) Remove floppy from A:\ and reboot PC.
5) At C:\ type fdisk
6) Select number 3 Delete Partition or
Logical DOS Drives.

I am assuming "H" is a Logical DOS Drive

7) Select 3 again and delete Logical DOS
drives in Extended DOS partition
8) Delete "H" drive
9) Repeat process and delete Primary DOS
Partion C:
10) With "H" and Primary DOS Partition "C"
removed, Place bootable DOS floppy in A:
and reboot PC.
11) From A:\ type fdisk and select 1
Create DOS Partition, select 1 again
Create Primary DOS Partition.

Once DOS partition is created you can format
the "C" drive and make it a bootable
DOS "C" drive.
12) From A:\ type "format c: /s" this will
create a Bootable DOS C drive.

Mike

You possibly could find boot disk at www.windriver.com,www.windriverhq.com,www.computercraft.com,www.ibiblio.org
The process of wiping the drive clean by inserting a windows 95 or 98 start up disk and boot to command prompt,use the fdisk /mbr,if thsi is successful the continue by using fdisk and following the on screen instructions

H: indicates a host drive in a system with compressed drives.

Create a floppy boot disk by any means available:

the cdrom with BSD or Win95
http://www.bootdisk.com/
http://www..com/
format a: /u /s
Properties of My Computer, choose Create Boot Disk from the appropriate page ...

Boot from the floppy, which will need to contain the minimum, OS boot files + fdisk + format. The best will be to use the fdisk and format programs of the OS you will install after making this disk ready.

From the floppy, run fdisk, remove all partitions found on that drive.
Reboot to try C:, without floppy bootdisk, to see that it worked.
Reboot with floppy, fun fdisk, create partition(s), commit changes.
Reboot with floppy, run format, ie: format c: /u /s /v:emptydrive.
Reboot without floppy to see that it worked ...

After you get that boot disk i recommend doing a debug. the script is as follows:

C:\> debug

-F 200 L1000 0

-A CS:100

xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301

xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200

xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1

xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80 - "80 for hd 0,"81" for hd 1

xxxx:010C INT 13

xxxx:010E INT 20

xxxx:0110 - Leave this line blank

-G

program terminated normally