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DOS学习入门 & 精彩文章（教学室） » Is my format command wrong? I'm a newbie~`

Floor1　ming860326	Posted 2004-01-27 00:00
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I was in DOS c:\>format c:/q/s It said my command was wrong. So where exactly is the mistake? Do I have to boot from a boot disk and get to A:\> first? Text

Floor2　tdj	Posted 2004-01-27 00:00
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Haha!! Zhu Bajie gnawing on a pig's trotter! ^_^ Using format on drive C to format drive C?

Floor4　xiaojun	Posted 2004-01-27 00:00
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I've formatted C while at the C:\ prompt before. It's not impossible, and I didn't use a boot disk either...

Floor5　tdj	Posted 2004-01-27 00:00
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*The following is quoted from xiaojun at 2004-1-27 12:59:49:* I've formatted C while at the C:\ prompt before. It's not impossible It is possible. After booting with a boot disk, you can probably format drive C from any drive letter. I once formatted C with a:format when I didn't have a floppy drive, but I don't know what that guy wants to do. I find it pretty interesting.

Floor6　Kinglion	Posted 2004-01-28 00:00
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*The following is quoted from ming860326 at 2004-1-27 1:12:18:* I was in DOS c:\>format c:/q/s It said my command was wrong. So where exactly is the mistake? Do I have to boot from a boot disk and get to A:\> first? Please note: before carrying this out, make sure FORMAT.COM is in the command search path. For example: PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND; Then FORMAT.COM must exist in one of the above three directories.

Floor8　lyww	Posted 2004-02-22 00:00
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Why can't you format C while at the C: prompt!!!!!! I've done it like this before. And it worked very successfully. But it was c:\>format c:/s/q You reversed s and q, haha!!1

Floor9　wphs0326	Posted 2004-03-09 00:00
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What post #8 said is right, c:\format c:/s/u is possible.

Floor10　windows2004	Posted 2004-03-09 00:00
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*The following is quoted from Kinglion at 2004-1-28 9:28:22:* *The following is quoted from ming860326 at 2004-1-27 1:12:18:* I was in DOS  c:\>format c:/q/s  It said my command was wrong. So where exactly is the mistake? Do I have to boot from a boot disk and get to A:\> first?    Please note: before carrying this out, make sure FORMAT.COM is in the command search path. For example: PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND; Then FORMAT.COM must exist in one of the above three directories. Right, well said.