Alan, You're basically right about high memory and formatting.  At least in
the case of all DOS versions later than 5.0 and possibly includng the DOS
versions around which Windows 95 and Windows 98 are wrapped, you want to
make sure to invoke the /u (slash key and the letter u) so that DOS will not
try to save the formatting information for possible unformatting later.
This is where the memory problem might be happening.  DOS is warning that
there is insufficient memory to save unformat information and thus if you
wish to proceed with the formatting process, you won't be able to unformat
the disk later.  When that /U parameter was first implemented, a 500MB disk
was still a monster.  Now, lots of people won't even take them for nothing!
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