Greg, From the same boot disk A prompt, type DIR and press enter key. That
will show a list of files so you can see if the format command is on the
floppy. If the list scrolls too fast to see, type DIR/P and enter for one
page at a time. If the boot disk doesn't have all the files you need, I
believe you can download a boot disk from freepctech.com although I haven't
done it myself.
At 3/4/03, you 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.  Thank you.
>
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