There is a dos utility called FDISK which will allow you to delete the
drive partitioning and recreate the drive partition.

Choose Option 4 to view the partition information.

On my system I have one drive with one partion and it states:
Current Fixed Drive 1
Partition  C:    Status  A  Type PRI DOS

You must have one and only one partition that is status A.  This is the
drive that you will use to Boot from.

Once you can see what your partitions are, you can use option 3 to delete
the ones that don't work and then recreate them, with Option 1.

FDISK allows you to divide one physical drive into one or more logical drives.

Once you have repartioned the drive, then you can format it.

At 02:28 AM 4/19/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!
>
>How do I format a compressed drive, when all the system files and the host
>drive files have deen destroyed? When I tried to put in a boot disk and
>execute the format command, the response is that this drive is a compressed
>drive and I should use DriveSpace to format the drive.

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