In the hour of 09:19 AM 8/11/2002 -0400, Electronics spoke this: >sometimes when I try to format a hard drive I get a message of missing files >and cant format the drive, the system still runs fine but I cant do a clean >install,is there some way to completely wipe the hard drive ? like a low >level format? I've heard of that but dont know. any help greatly >appreciated. >-Tony
Sometimes the low level format is found in the BIOS. Many hard drive vendors include a low level utility with their setup floppies so check with the vendor of choice. You should be able to do a format from the boot disk, at the command prompt enter format c: and it should work. Peter Kaulback ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
