Format Tips Needed

[Madboy]

Decided to do a spring clean this weekend and format my messed up pc. I printed some instruction guides of the net, but they arnt enough.

Ive backed everything up that i need. What i need to know is maybe a list of commands i can use at the command prompt.

For example if you load Windows from a bootdisk, it eventually comes to

A:>

in which i dont know how to proceed to load. I tried:

A:>run
A:>start
A:>boot

but nothing, im aware of FDISK. But id appreciate a list of all avaliable commands please - incase i cant get windows to load.

Cheers

[visualAd]

I assume you are aware that a format will wipe your disk. If not that is what it will do

At the DOS prompt you may find the following commands useful:

Help on any command:
A:\> cmdname /?

List the contents of the current directory:
A:\> dir

Change directory:
A:\> cd dirname

Copy a file:
A:\> copy source dest

Edit a text file:
A:\> edit filename

Change to another drive:
A:\> C:

To format a partition:
A:\> format C:

To re-partition drive:
A:\> fdisk

If you want to repartition a drive. Do this before your reformat it. Once you have reparitioned you'll need to re-format each partition,

[Madboy]

Thanks, what if say i load Windows off a boot disk, how does it continue to load?

A:> INSERTLOADWINDOWSPROMPTHERE

Cheers mate

[visualAd]

Originally posted by Madboy
Thanks, what if say i load Windows off a boot disk, how does it continue to load?

A:> INSERTLOADWINDOWSPROMPTHERE

Cheers mate

I don't know what you mean.

If you want to load Windows from the DOS prompt:

A:\> C:
C:\> autoexec.bat
C:\> windows\win.com

[Madboy]

cheers. If im not back, im stuck in DOS

[dis1411]

you dont load windows from the boot disk, you load windows setup (from another disk)

[visualAd]

so thats what he meant.

[Pc_Madness]

Thanks for getting rid of Madboy for us Visualad.

[wossname]

I can just imagine what kind of advice the ba$tard operator from hell would give for this problem.

Something like:

- "Oh that's easy, it'll be (flips calendar over to today's excuse) because of solar flares interfering with the IEEE 1394 RFI shielding on your rig. Have you got any conductive, non-ferrous, thermally resilient metallic sheeting with you?"

- "eh?"

- "A gum wrapper will do"

- "Oh, right"

- "OK, roll it up real small and push it through the air vent in the left side of your machine."

- (BZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzttttttttt)





Thanks to ecniv, for the link Check out that site, you'll piss yourself.

[Wally Pipp]

BOFH is on theregister.co.uk these days ...

[wossname]

Yeah, but I thought it would be better to read the early stuff first, to get a better back-ground.

I appreciated the graduation from "Network Doom" to "Network Doom II" to "Network Quake" to "Network Quake II". I was doing that same progression in my school / college days! Brilliant. The gradual improvement of his hardware over the years was noted too.

I also see he's been playing AOE.

Top entertainment. Funniest thing I've seen on the net yet.