{"id":8078,"date":"2021-11-25T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=8078"},"modified":"2021-11-25T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T14:04:39","slug":"how-to-format-a-dvd-rom-in-windows-7-using-command-prompt","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/windows-7\/how-to-format-a-dvd-rom-in-windows-7-using-command-prompt\/20310.html","title":{"rendered":"How To Format a DVD ROM In Windows 7 Using Command Prompt."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an Acer all in.one computer running windows 7.<br \/>\nIt has never been backed up more does it have a recovery starting point. It froze up on me while Running a program that Zip downloaded to alliw me access to the is.OS of an iPad to possibly erase or delete some files. Well it did not scan the iPad as I thought it was, but it ran a scan on the main computer. Then it froze up. I tried to restart it, but when it ran the disc scan to repair it, it did not work and it hot stuck on the Widows logo screen.<br \/>\nI tried to do a restore, but with no restore point that is not possible. I ordered a repair and a reinstall disk, but when I chose to back up the hard drive first, I got a message that I must format the dvd first. But it is hard to do this in safe mode a and the commands that I found on youtube only worked up to the last command, which is supposed to be &#8220;Y&#8221; for yes But it did not recognize that command. This is the commands I found. Wbadmin Start backup-backuptarget: F:-include :C:-allcritical<br \/>\nHit return<br \/>\nType Y to Start backing up .<br \/>\nThis was supposed to be fir backkng up the whole hard drive, but nothing worked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":31},"question-category":[42],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-8078","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-windows-7"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/8078","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=8078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=8078"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=8078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}