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Chuck - 28 Sep 2004 15:58 GMT

I have a dell dimension, we ended up with a virus. I have
used Fdisk and reinstalled ME before on this computer. I
did the following; created a start up disk,start up in
drive A:, reinstall ME in drive D:, deleted existing
partition,than partition the hard drive (fat 32), varified
that c: was empty. When I attempted to format, all I get
is a message (bad command or file), start up disk contains
18 files no format file. ME contains no format file. I
have three other start up disks from two other dells, they
contain same files. I have reformatted before and this has
never happened.
Thanks
Chuck

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Mike M - 28 Sep 2004 16:21 GMT

When booting from the Win Me boot floppy don't choose option 4) Minimal
Boot but either 2) or 3). The FORMAT command is on the floppy but not as
a discrete file but rather stored in the file ebd.cab which is expanded
onto a virtual drive using 1MB of your RAM if you choose either option 2)
or 3) when booting using the floppy.

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> I have a dell dimension, we ended up with a virus. I have
> used Fdisk and reinstalled ME before on this computer. I
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> Thanks
> Chuck

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