How to format drive C:? HELP

[Bill]

I am scraping an old PC with WIndows ME. To avoid any
problems, I would like to format drive c:? How can I do
it? Windows is not allowing me to format the drive
from "my computor" because it's in use.

[Mike M]

You cannot format the drive containing the operating system when still using
that system. You can only do this from a DOS prompt after booting from a
floppy.

For details of how to fdisk and format see the Microsoft Knowledge Base
article 255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition
or Repartition a Hard Disk" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867) as
well as the file CLEANHD.TXT which is in the Win 9x folder on the Win Me CD.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Bill > wrote:

> I am scraping an old PC with WIndows ME. To avoid any
> problems, I would like to format drive c:? How can I do
> it? Windows is not allowing me to format the drive
> from "my computor" because it's in use.

>-----Original Message-----
>I am scraping an old PC with WIndows ME. To avoid any
>problems, I would like to format drive c:? How can I do
>it? Windows is not allowing me to format the drive
>from "my computor" because it's in use.
>.
>Bill, switch to /DOS mode type ( FORMAT/S) your sys
may not need the s, thats for sys files. Be sure you have
a start up disk, good luck
Barry