I have been given an old laptop to practice with It has a 4.5GB HD and 64MB memory it had windows 98 and a lot of rubbish on it so I INSTALLED XP SP2 on it however this uses all of the space so I want to try linux & learn a little about this system.
I have not USED dos before so DECIDED to format the disc using dos
I created a MS DOS startup disc while running XP, my computer, A, format, create MS DOS, start. This was all OK
I then rebooted the system & entered the ms doss disc by pressing F button immediatly on start up.
on the screen I now have dos screen showing

Starting
Microsoft Windows Millenium

A:\>
I then entered the format prompt
A:|>format c:
I then get Bad command or file name
I have RETRIED several times but no luck
I suspect that it may be I created the dos disc using XP & the dos system is millenium Help would be appreciated
Regards to all DaveeAt the A: prompt it's format C: /u and hit ENTER...if this doesn't work you have built the floppy wrong.
You can DLoad a file from bootdisk.com.
Choose the WinME one with CDRom support for your needs.Hi thanks for the info I dload from freepctech.com & resolved the issue Regards Davee