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DOS疑难解答 & 问题讨论（解答室） » Couldn't format my own drive under MS-DOS.

Floor1　hhy	Posted 2003-01-20 00:00
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My computer seems to have a Trojan, and I want to format the hard drive. So under MS-DOS I entered FORMAT c:/S but it said it was invalid. I don't know who renamed FORMAT, maybe Lenovo did it ^^55^^55^^ (I'm using a Lenovo Kaitian series machine). What should I do, experts?

Floor2　nre	Posted 2003-01-20 00:00
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Boot with a boot disk, then format it, give that a try.

Floor3　ggj	Posted 2003-01-25 00:00
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Are you using DOS from within Windows? If so then it definitely won't work. The operating system is on drive C, would it let itself format itself? Wouldn't that be suicide? As Mr. nre said, using a boot disk will do it.

Floor4　MYS	Posted 2003-01-26 00:00
元老会员　Posts 1,637　Credits 5,170　From 广东佛山
If it's WIN98, you can press F8 during startup and then enter DOS mode; you can format the hard drive that way too.

Floor5　odusseus	Posted 2003-02-06 00:00
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It won't work under pseudo-DOS. It only works under real DOS.