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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user