On 4 Mar 2003, at 14:03, Greg Shaw wrote:

> I have about a 5 year old computer that I'm trying to re-format the C
> drive on.  I'm using Windows95. When I tried to format, the system was
> off, and I turned in back on with a boot disk in.  I tried the steps
> offered on the site but unfortunately when I typed, "format c: /s" I got
> an error message. This was done from a A prompt. The message I received
> was "bad command or invalid name."   I would appreciate any suggestions
> others might have to solving this problem.

  In order for this to work, the floppy will need to contain a copy of the
FORMAT.COM program compatible with the OS that boots from the floppy.  The
"bad command" message is "DOS" reporting that it cannot find any such file.

David Gillett

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