how to format without dos disks

[leekirb]

In a conundrum here. Have win98 upgrade. I want to format my drives and start all over(clean up). I have the win95 disc from dell that came with computer, I don't have dos. The only dos I have is 6.22 step up disks. How can I format with what I have?
Thanks
leekirb

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Go to

http://www.bootdisk.com

and download the files needed for a Win98 startup floppy. Install those on a floppy disk and away you go.

Murray

 

[TSSTechie]

You can also create a DOS boot disk by going to the Control Panel, Clicking Add / Remove programs, click the 'Startup Disk' Tab and click 'Create Disk'.
Follwo the on-screen instructions and there you have a Boot disk from whic you can boot the machine into DOS and install Windwos from there.
Hope this helps!

 

[WoodyCool]

An easy way to format without DOS disks is to press F8 during boot-up (before the splash screen appears) and select "Command Prompt Only". Now do the FORMAT!

 

[shmoes]

woodycool,

have you actually done that?

if you boot to a dos prompt, it's using system files on that C:\ and will not be able to format it. and when you format it? where is the format.exe going to be when you've formated over it? =)

so technically i don't think that's possible.

unless you were formatting a d:\ but you could simply do that from windows as well...


~Shmoes

I lay claim to nothing and everything. My words may be wisdom or disaster. In the end you make a choice. Noone is perfect.

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

if the system supports booting with a cd just boot with it and startup without cdrom support then format