Mike,
Try fdisk with the 'mbr' switch, it will wipe the master boot record and
should solve your problem
HTH
W.R.(Bill) Boulton
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Bridges
Subject: [PCBUILD] format help
>A friend has brought his PC to me so I can format the hard drive .

 The problem is when I try to format the drive with the format c:/s
>command I get a message saying "Insufficient memory to load system
>files.Format terminated."
> I'm out of ideas and really need some help.
>Thank you,
>Mike Bridges

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