Hi

Can anyone tell me what to type in at the A prompt to format a hard disk running Windows ME. I need to do this in order to reload it again due to the files being destroyed by a virus.

Thanks

Ignore this one. See below

format c:

Is that what you want?

Thanks Markwit I'll give it a try

Thanks again for your help but it didn't work. Does anyone else know what needs to be typed in.

Thanks again for your help but it didn't work. Does anyone else know what needs to be typed in.

Why doesn't it work? What happens?

I've no experience of WInME but there might be some help here? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/268891/en-us
In particular, scroll down to the list after "After EBD has been created..."

Have you tried format :c

Type in fdisk at the prompt, this will take you to a screen with 4 options regarding the harddrive, you need to select delete partion and reboot. Use fdisk again to create a primary partion and select yes to use all the harddrive, reboot again and type in format c: at the prompt. This will format the drive with the fat 32 file system.
PS you need to make a start-up disk using a floopy this can be done from a windows 98 or ME this disk will contain the fdisk utilitie need to format the harddrive.