MCSE : Security Specialist
Format drive
Windows 9x
To format a hard disk drive with Windows 98 installed
In Windows Explorer, right-click the drive
icon for that disk, and then click Format.
To format a hard disk drive using a Windows 98 Startup Disk
Make sure a Startup Disk is in drive a:. Then, at the command
prompt, type the following: format c:
If you are formatting drive c:, copy system files to the hard disk
by typing the following at the command prompt:
format c: /s
When the warning message appears, proceed with formatting by
pressing Y. Then press ENTER.
When formatting is complete, type a volume label (if you want one),
and then press ENTER.
Remove the floppy disks from all floppy disk drives, and restart the
computer by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL.
Windows 2000
The
format command creates a new root directory and file system for the
disk. It can also check for bad areas on the disk, and it can delete
all data on the disk. For Windows 2000 to be able to use a new disk,
you must first use this command to format the disk.
You
must have Administrator rights to format a hard disk.
When you use the format command to format a hard disk, Windows 2000
displays a message of the following form before attempting to format
the hard disk:
WARNING, ALL DATA ON non removable DISK
DRIVE x: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)?_
format volume [/fs:file-system] [/v:label] [/q]
volume:
Specifies the mount point, volume name, or drive letter of the drive
you want to format.
/fs:file-system
Specifies the file system to use, FAT, FAT32, or NTFS. Floppy disks
can use only the FAT file system.
/v:label
Specifies the volume label.
/q
You can speed up the formatting process by using the /q switch. Use
this switch only if there are no bad sectors on your hard disk.
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