https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/regarding-format-of-harddish/m-p/3704648#M6886 You may want to boot to the boot disk and FDISK first, delete any partitions, create a new one and then format. First, though, make sure format.com is on the boot disk, if not, copy it from the system folder. Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:38:32 GMT Michael Dillman 2006-01-07T23:38:32Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/regarding-format-of-harddish/m-p/3704646#M6884 How to format Harddisk(windows 98) Sat, 07 Jan 2006 09:46:04 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/regarding-format-of-harddish/m-p/3704646#M6884 suhailalig 2006-01-07T09:46:04Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/regarding-format-of-harddish/m-p/3704647#M6885 Hi:<BR /><BR />If you have a 'boot floppy', boot from it and type in FORMAT C: from the command prompt. This assumes the drive you want to format is Drive C:.<BR /><BR />If you have no boot floppy, you can download one from <A href="http://www.bootdisk.com" target="_blank">www.bootdisk.com</A><BR /><BR />Make a great day!<BR /><BR />Roger Sat, 07 Jan 2006 10:18:30 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/regarding-format-of-harddish/m-p/3704647#M6885 Roger Faucher 2006-01-07T10:18:30Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/regarding-format-of-harddish/m-p/3704648#M6886 You may want to boot to the boot disk and FDISK first, delete any partitions, create a new one and then format. First, though, make sure format.com is on the boot disk, if not, copy it from the system folder. Sat, 07 Jan 2006 23:38:32 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-microsoft/regarding-format-of-harddish/m-p/3704648#M6886 Michael Dillman 2006-01-07T23:38:32Z