A Clean reinstall

After lots of problems I would like to Format the hard drive and either
reinstall or upgrade to Wxp. I booted up with the Boot disk and entered
FORMAT C: to receive a "Bad command of file name. After several attempts I
discovered the Format command was not on the Boot disk. How then can I
format the drive? Thank you, Ron S.

Mike
Wed Mar 16 15:53:19 CST 2005

Don't select minimum boot when booting from the floppy. Whilst FORMAT is
not on the floppy as such it is contained in the cab file EBD.CAB which is
expanded into RAM when booting with options 1, 2 or 3 from the boot menu
and thus made available at the command prompt.
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Ron Shepherd <ron@shep5776.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> After lots of problems I would like to Format the hard drive and
> either reinstall or upgrade to Wxp. I booted up with the Boot disk
> and entered FORMAT C: to receive a "Bad command of file name. After
> several attempts I discovered the Format command was not on the Boot
> disk. How then can I format the drive? Thank you, Ron S.

Jack
Wed Mar 16 16:54:19 CST 2005

http://aumha.org/win4/a/clean.htm
http://aumha.org/win4/a/meupgrad.htm

Upgrading to WINDOWS XP
HOME EDITION or PROFESSIONAL
Version 3.8 ? Last Updated August 27, 2002
by Gary Woodruff, MS-MVP
© 2001-2002 by Author, All Rights Reserved
http://www.aumha.org/a/xpupgrad.htm

Clean Install Windows XP
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html


Windows Product Activation (WPA) on Windows XP
by Alex Nichol, MS-MVP
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"Ron Shepherd" <ron@shep5776.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> After lots of problems I would like to Format the hard drive and either
> reinstall or upgrade to Wxp. I booted up with the Boot disk and entered
> FORMAT C: to receive a "Bad command of file name. After several attempts I
> discovered the Format command was not on the Boot disk. How then can I
> format the drive? Thank you, Ron S.
>
>

Ron
Thu Mar 17 03:42:11 CST 2005

Thank you Mike and Jack for your help and time. I am now well on my way.
Your information was excellent. Ron Shepherd.
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"Ron Shepherd" <ron@shep5776.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:eKTIVFnKFHA.2704@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> After lots of problems I would like to Format the hard drive and either
> reinstall or upgrade to Wxp. I booted up with the Boot disk and entered
> FORMAT C: to receive a "Bad command of file name. After several attempts I
> discovered the Format command was not on the Boot disk. How then can I
> format the drive? Thank you, Ron S.
>
>