re: Reformat used floppies Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 4:02 pm Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jerry Ciral (12 messages posted) You're so right..........but what an inconvenience! With Win XP I used to be able to get a DOS command that would allow me to use the "-/S" after FORMAT to make a disk bootable. I think the simple solution is to buy some new bootable diskettes for my Win 2K OS! On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 3:53 pm, DEX wrote: >Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. >Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life. >-- Chinese proverb -- > > >Because win2k is NOT a DOS O.S. you will need to go to a PC that is running DOS ,win98,etc. >Then put the disk in the drive and type format a: /s > >This will make it bootable > > > > > > Great Free Software Click >Here >C. H. Forum Click Here > Written in response to: re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 3:53 pm) Responses to this message: re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 4:25 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Tue, May 22, 2007, 5:28 pm) re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Tue, May 22, 2007, 6:50 pm) re: Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Wed, May 23, 2007, 3:05 pm) re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wed, May 23, 2007, 3:53 pm) re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wed, May 23, 2007, 4:01 pm) re: Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Wed, May 23, 2007, 4:02 pm) re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wed, May 23, 2007, 4:25 pm) re: Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Wed, May 23, 2007, 5:25 pm) re: Reformat used floppies (DEX: Wed, May 23, 2007, 5:38 pm) re: Reformat used floppies (Jerry Ciral: Wed, May 23, 2007, 6:54 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum