That's because you don't have all necessary files on boot disk, you will
also need "format.com" to perform harddisk format.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ruth Correll" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 1:09 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Problem formating a hard drive


> I am trying to format a hard drive and I do the following after booting
from the A drive and getting an A:.  I type format c: /s and get "Bad
command or file name."

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