Sorry, in precious message should have sais

FORMAT C: /S /U

/S is to copy the system (freedos)
/U is unconditional, it will test all and take a loooong time

alain

Em 12-05-2010 23:23, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros escreveu:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to reformat for FreeDOS a 6 GB hard drive that
> previously had Windows 98.
>
> After running Fdisk to create three 2 GB partitions and make one
> bootable, I ran Format, but it gave the error message:
>
>    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    Boot sector contents implausible, disk not yet FAT formatted
>    Win98? Default BPB *FAT1x* 1024 sectors\FAT, 512 root size, FAT32 Forced.
>    Access Denied! LOCK problem? Aborting.
>    [Error 55]
>    -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> In previous cases, I have been able to format disks in similar
> circumstances by:
>
>      - Running CPB0.COM (Clear Pre Boot v. 1.00 [06-88] - by
>        DeLima.)
>
>      - In TestDisk, doing the following:
>        * Delete all data in the partition table
>        * Clear MBR partition table by writing zero bytes to it
>        * Change partition type from type 06 (Fat16) to 0e (Fat16 LBA)
>
> This time, however, none of this worked.
>
> Help would be appreciated.
>
> Marcos
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
> Campinas, Brazil
> fav...@mpcnet.com.br
>
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