I have searched the archives forthe problem i'm having: that my windows XP has crashed now i'm fed up with windows and want to install suse linux so i want to format my hard drive so i have all space available and now that i have created a boot cd w/ floppy disk from stable Windows XP machine I try to format C: and i get bad command or file name. I have tried different things like /s or /u on the end of the format command but same result occurs. "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column. http://freepctech.com/rode