If I'm booting from CD I still need to get to an prompt and format the drive, right? I can't sidestep this, can I? (when I've selected the Boot with CD Support option and tried formatting C: I've just had exactly the same error messages).īy the way, the BIOS recognizes the hard drive, the CD drive and floppy drive correctly. Have tried to boot from CD but I don't fully understand the process. I tried using a fresh Win ME startup disk, both with and without the extra command (same results again DIR didn't recognise it as being on the disk). I copied the command from my next door neighbour's Windows ME onto a Win98 startup disk and tried that with the same results (DIR doesn't recognise it as being on the disk). I downloaded a couple of different startup disks from and tried them with exactly the same results. My startup disk has and ebd.cab but no. It's a new floppy drive and it reads the DIR of the disc so I reckon the floppy drive is working OK. It tried to extract it but gave me a General Failure Writing Drive A (or similar - I'm paraphrasing from memory here). So I checked the DIR of my startup disk (made from Win98) and there's no on it. It's the format C: /S that's the problem. Have reached a complete impasse trying to format my hard disk.
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