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hi can anyone TELL me why when i try to format c:\ drive it comes up with ERROR reading c:\ then it says abort retry fail to me its like its trying to read like a floppy a:\ drive does please help
What OS are you running ?
Is C: the only Hard drive/partition you have?
You cannot format C: from C:

Grab a WinME bootdisk from bootdisk.com.
Extract the file to a clean floppy.
Then BOOT with the floppy in the machine.
At the A: prompt type format C: /u and hit enter.

You do realise you will lose all your data on C: by doing this ?

Let us KNOW so we can help you further...

patio.  it has  windows 98If you can boot into windows, it will make a boot disk for you. Be sure to make it with CDRom support. Quote

Can anyone tell me why, when I try to run A:\>format c: it comes up with 'Error reading c:' then it says 'Abort, Retry, Fail' to me its like it's trying to read like a floppy a: drive.  Please help.


Are you using a '98 bootdiskette? Have you TRIED fdisk?

What was the reason for your having to format? Is there maybe a hardware problem associated with the age of the drive?


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