Formatting Question...

[fitzm]

When I try to format my h.d. using the standard format c:/s, it almost immediately gets to 13% and says there was "insufficient memory"... and discontinued the format. But, if I type in format c: without /s it continues with the format fine. What gives?

Also, my 3 year old Yamaha scsi burner had a hard time reading my burnt copy of 98SE to do the fresh install so I had to install my burnt copy of XP whch it recognized and booted from almost right away. The burner has had some trouble in the past with some other copies as well. Is this the beginning of the end for this drive?

 

[corkyg]

What are you using to boot with? It should be nor problem with an old Win9X boot disk . . . they have HIMEM.SYS as a DOS driver and also make your CD ROM alive in DOS.

Whatever you are booting with evidently does not have HIMSYS loaded. A work around it to just format c: Then when that is done, use the SYS C:\ command.

 

[fitzm]

The dir command shows the himem.sys file on the boot disk. At what exact point do I actually put in the SYS C:\ command in?