My guess is that your drive has been formatted to NTFS and is not recognized
by your older 95 floppy, which expects FAT.

Perhaps, instead of trying to format it, you should try to FDISK it, erasing
the old logical drives and then replacing them.  If this works, then you
have gone to a lower level than the file system and may be able to format
for FAT 32.  (I have never had to do this, so I do not know for sure that it
will work.)  FDISK should be on the Win 95 boot disk.  If this works, then
you should be able to install 95.


Dean Kukral

----- Original Message -----
From: "Freda Wikoff" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 9:48 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Can't format hard drive.


> I am trying to get my daughters computer up and running for her.  It's an
AMD Athlon 1.15ghz processor, and I just had a new motherboard installed
along with 512 mb of RAM.  She was having freeze ups and random rebooting
problems.  I took the computer to a tech and had the install checked out
because it was still random rebooting.  Seems some "thermal grease" was not
applied and the processor was overheating.  Now comes the problem...they
installed my Windows XP with a boot disk for NT.  Now I can't uninstall XP,
which is not needed on this machine because it will only be used for games
by my young grandkids.  I have down loaded boot disks for both Win 95 and
Win NT.  Can't get NT boot to work because files were to large for floppy
and I can't get the system to boot up to CD.  I can boot up with Win 95, but
the system won't recognize my hard drive.  All I want to do is format "C"
drive so I can load Win 95 or Win NT.  What am I doing wrong?  When I give
the command at A: prompt to format c:, it tells me "invalid drive".  I am
only a novice at this, so any help given would be appreciated and keep the
lingo so I can understand...please!!

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