Format/Slick Disk

[Swank76]

At work we have been using some floppy's to format HD on new and old machines. We just put them in, boot and BLAM, No more OS. Well someone quit and took all the disks. Anyone know where to get something like this. It was some sort of MS-DOS program that used FDISK and some other simple DOS scripts. Appreciate it guys

 

[yazman]

Just go to any computer with win98 and go to Control Panel,
Add/Remove Programs and click on StartUp Disk tab and
create a startup disk or as many copies you want.
I think you will find that those are the disks you
are now missing.

 

[Jiggz]

I believe what you're looking for is not just a boot disk but a boot disk with a batch file to format the HD. You can do what Yazman said and then you need to make a batch using MS Dos Basic or even Editor to make a batch file which formats a HD. Maybe somebody from the forum can make one for you.

 

[TunaBoo]

Do this.


1) Make a win98 boot disk from any win98 machine
2) Copy format.com over to it.
3) The last line of the autoexec on the boot disk, add the line:
format c: /q \y

I am pretty sure that is the right syntax for it all, not 100% positive.

 

[Jeff7]

I use a utility originally from IBM:
ZAP

It wipes the partition tables - just edit the autoexec.bat on the floppy to make it run the zap.com file. There will be no partitions left on the drive. Just note, it's not a data wiper; it doesn't write zeroes to the whole drive. It just quickly clears the file and partition tables.

 

[Swank76]

Thanks guys I will give it a try tomorrow. I will also look into the zap utility that you describe. I will keep you guys updated on how it turns out.
Thanks again!!!

 

[Swank76]

Another thing, we actually paid some guy to make these disks for us using basic. Pretty stupid of us not to keep a copy after he left, right.