{"id":4238,"date":"2021-11-09T11:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T11:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&p=4238"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T11:14:25","slug":"solved-format-hard-disk-from-dos","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-xp\/format-hard-disk-from-dos\/184977.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Format Hard Disk From DOS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to format my hard drive and reinstall XP Home with SP1. I have an MS-DOS boot disk made with the Win XP format . When I boot from the floppy I come to the DOS prompt A:\\ . I can get the DIR “directory” to tell me what’s on the floppy but that is all! If I attempt to CD “Change Dir” to the C:\\ and am given the reply, “Bad command or file name”. I can’t even edit a .BAT file. What am I missing. Any standard DOS command gives the same resulting message, “Bad command or file name”. What am I missing. I thought I was knowledgable, I have an AAS in Computer Information Systems. The DOS disk contains the following 13 files. EGA2.CPI – EGA3.CPI – EGA.CPI – KEYB.COM – KEYBOARD.SYS – 2,3,AND 4.SYS – MODE.COM – COMMAND.COM – DISPLAY.SYS – AUTOEXEC.BAT – CONFIG.SYS. I have all the system \/ software disks that came with the computer when it was new. I just want to go back as to the begining for a fresh start. Currently the system has Win XP with SP2 and when I boot from the Windows install disk, I get the message, “This computer has a newer version of Windows”, so it won’t let me start over. I uninstalled SP3 and rolled it back to SP2 but for the life of me there is no WindowsXP-KB#####-SP2-x86-ENU.exe file in the add \/ remove program utility even when I show updates. Just for kicks I went to the CMD line in windows and tried to format C:\\, but as expected it said the drive is in use and asked if I wanted to unmount it. I said yes and….well of course I can’t do that either. Please does anyone have any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":7},"question-category":[76],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-4238","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-xp"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}