Mike,

It sounds like you are working from inside Windows.  That is wrong.  When
you boot the PC, you must boot directly to DOS by using a  floppy disk.

Do not enter Windows, do not use drive C at all.

Jim Meagher
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Bridges <[log in to unmask]>

>
>A friend has brought his PC to me so I can format the hard drive .
>I made this post 6 months ago but his wife got impatient and wanted
>the PC back after a couple days so some might recognise this post from
>before.
> It is a Pentium Pro 150 on a Intel board with 48 megs of SIMMS.A 1.6
>gig WD HDD,2 6x cdr's on IDE2,a generic sound blaster and a Paradise
>Pipeline video card which I have changed.I suspect it as part of the
>problem.The machine has been loaded up with all sorts of games and
>junk by a couple kids and the parents.The owner wants the hard drive
>formatted and I agree.The OS is Window95 version a.
> 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." Some members of the list seemed to think
>this was a virus.I have run updated McAfee and Norton ant virus
>programs on this machine and found nothing.I have manually uninstalled
>what I could
>to free up as many resources as possible.
> I'm out of ideas and really need some help.

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