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infinatenexus
12-12-2004, 05:18 PM
Whats the command you type in after you boot off the "boot disk"? I can't for the life of me remember.
infinatenexus
12-12-2004, 06:02 PM
anybody?????
Apex001
12-12-2004, 07:07 PM
what are you trying to do? need to format the drive or....??
Fooshitinkinjssomethingorother
12-12-2004, 07:23 PM
Are you talking about the was yo let you start up windows in its various startup modes (safe mode, etc.) ? That's F8
infinatenexus
12-13-2004, 04:06 AM
Its the command you use after you put the boot disk in, and restart the computer. You need to type in a command, and I can't remember what it is.

My cousin downloaded a nasty virus, so I am erasing my hard rive, and starting over.
jb2178
12-13-2004, 08:25 AM
if it's a boot disk the computer should boot up with just the disk in when you start it up - unless the boot sequence is off and the bios setup needs to be switched so the bios tries to boot from disk before the hard drive... to get to your bios setup its either F2 or Del but it should tell you when the first screen comes up...
Arachnid
12-13-2004, 10:07 AM
fucking can't remember right...but try /fdisk
boot sequence shouldn't really matter unless something is seriously screwed up. and besides if it doesn't initially boot up from floppy it'll eventually scan through it as a POST.
Arachnid
12-13-2004, 10:14 AM
/fdisk if you are trying to partition your HD. judging from you having to do this the manual way you must have an older computer? get a new comp stick in xp cd, press play, be done.
Arachnid
12-13-2004, 10:22 AM
when you start-up during POST your comp should be scanning and will come up with a "Non-system disk or disk error....Replace and strike any key when ready...Disk boot failure" that's if your disk is not bootable. if you're using dos i believe you have to use the A:/ command
My93Civic
12-13-2004, 04:31 PM
What OS did you have before? If you are gonna reformat and reinstall Windows, then just pop in teh CD and boot off of that to get into Windows Setup.
Bizzar
12-13-2004, 08:28 PM
format c: /s
modsHXcivi
12-13-2004, 11:11 PM
dam this is some shit that i just dont even know about ...id just go and get a new hard drive ...or is that what you are tryin to load
rotory20
12-14-2004, 06:10 AM
go with gentoo..!!!
down with microsoft!!!
Arachnid
12-15-2004, 03:02 PM
fdisk and then use the format c: s/
makku
12-15-2004, 03:23 PM
this belongs in the 90s forum :lol:... there are going to be a ton of people coming out of college who have no idea how to use DOS. All they've ever seen is windows... :(
Arachnid
12-15-2004, 03:26 PM
haha so true. but then as an A+certifide we still need to know this crap just because.
Fooshitinkinjssomethingorother
12-23-2004, 08:34 AM
dir /p

:lol:
makku
12-23-2004, 08:36 AM
anyone remember the command deltree ? Oh.. that one kicked my ass so many times. You can't undelete that one.
green_hornet_96
12-23-2004, 07:31 PM
My dad trained me right, made me work on DOS, then Windows 3.1, then Win95, Win98, Me, XP...

memmaker was my favorite program, let me play lots of games :), then there was edit autoexec.bat and config.sys cuz the darned sound card never installed right

Until I went to school and had to learn Unix, that's just a messed up way of doing things