Solve : win 7 Bootable floppy with ntfs format command.?

1.	Solve : win 7 Bootable floppy with ntfs format command.?
Answer» Hi all,I just joined and hope to fit in.I will help anyone I can.What I want to do is make a bootable floppy disk for win7.I formatted a floppy and made it bootable.I want to find the ntfs format command and copy it on the floppy.I have a win 98 boot floppy and it formats fat 32 drives fine,but it will not format an ntfs drive.I am putting in 4 western digital velociraptors,10,000 Rpm's.I want to run these drives as raid 0.I have to change to raid in the bios and load the raid drivrs on boot up.I can format the other drives in windows,BUT will this erase the drivers I loaded on boot up.I know that formatting a hard drive does very little in cleaning a hard drive.I use DBAN first and then REFORMAT the drive.This may be a bit long winded but i want to make a bootable floppy that I can format an ntfs drive in dos.I know the format command is on the win7 disk somewhere.Thank you. Quote I want to find the ntfs format command and copy it on the floppy Why? The windows disk can format. Quote I want to run these drives as raid 0 If you are using four disks, I would SUGGEST running them as RAID 5 if your motherboard supports it. RAID 0 is fast but it can be dangerous. If ONE of the drives fail, all of your data will be lost. RAID 5 PROVIDES parity. Does your board support RAID 5? Quote I can format the other drives in windows. No. Hardware RAID is invisible to the operating system. Quote from: RHhideout on November 29, 2010, 08:00:58 AM I want to find the ntfs format command and copy it on the floppy.I have a win 98 boot floppy and it formats fat 32 drives fine,but it will not format an ntfs drive OK, and as you noted lower down, you want the windows 7 format command on a DOS floppy. Well, the problem here is that the format command that Windows is putting on the boot floppy is a DOS executable; the format.exe that Windows 7 has in C:\windows\system32 (and C:\windows\syswow64 in 64-bit systems as well) are Windows executables. If you were to copy said format command to a floppy and try to boot into DOS, all you'd get is a "this program cannot be run in DOS mode" error. Additionally, the actual task of formatting is done by the file-system driver; in this case, the NTFS driver. However, no NTFS driver will be loaded to begin with on a DOS boot floppy. You can find expensive NTFS utilities that can be used from DOS but I believe that you are unnecessarily restricting your scope; why must you format the drive from DOS? Exactly... Sounds like it's not worth the effort to me....even though it could be done. Booting to the OS CD you'ld be done by now...RAID or no RAID.

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Hi all,I just joined and hope to fit in.I will help anyone I can.What I want to do is make a bootable floppy disk for win7.I formatted a floppy and made it bootable.I want to find the ntfs format command and copy it on the floppy.I have a win 98 boot floppy and it formats fat 32 drives fine,but it will not format an ntfs drive.I am putting in 4 western digital velociraptors,10,000
Rpm's.I want to run these drives as raid 0.I have to change to raid in the bios and load the raid drivrs on boot up.I can format the other drives in windows,BUT will this erase the drivers I loaded on boot up.I know that formatting a hard drive does very little in cleaning a hard drive.I use DBAN first and then REFORMAT the drive.This may be a bit long winded but i want to make a bootable floppy that I can format an ntfs drive in dos.I know the format command is on the win7 disk somewhere.Thank you. Quote

I want to find the ntfs format command and copy it on the floppy

Why?
The windows disk can format.

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I want to run these drives as raid 0

If you are using four disks, I would SUGGEST running them as RAID 5 if your motherboard supports it. RAID 0 is fast but it can be dangerous. If ONE of the drives fail, all of your data will be lost. RAID 5 PROVIDES parity. Does your board support RAID 5?

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I can format the other drives in windows.

No. Hardware RAID is invisible to the operating system. Quote from: RHhideout on November 29, 2010, 08:00:58 AM

I want to find the ntfs format command and copy it on the floppy.I have a win 98 boot floppy and it formats fat 32 drives fine,but it will not format an ntfs drive

OK, and as you noted lower down, you want the windows 7 format command on a DOS floppy. Well, the problem here is that the format command that Windows is putting on the boot floppy is a DOS executable; the format.exe that Windows 7 has in C:\windows\system32 (and C:\windows\syswow64 in 64-bit systems as well) are Windows executables. If you were to copy said format command to a floppy and try to boot into DOS, all you'd get is a "this program cannot be run in DOS mode" error.

Additionally, the actual task of formatting is done by the file-system driver; in this case, the NTFS driver. However, no NTFS driver will be loaded to begin with on a DOS boot floppy. You can find expensive NTFS utilities that can be used from DOS but I believe that you are unnecessarily restricting your scope; why must you format the drive from DOS?

Exactly...
Sounds like it's not worth the effort to me....even though it could be done.
Booting to the OS CD you'ld be done by now...RAID or no RAID.

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