Date   : Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:42:45 +0100
From   : "Steve O'Leary" <navalenigma@...>
Subject: Re: CPFS and MOVE

>From: "David Harper" <dl.harper@...>
>To: "BBC Micro List" <bbc-micro@...>
>Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] CPFS and MOVE
>Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:52:08 +0100
>
>Ian Wolstenholme wrote (and following up my own last post):
>
>>I'll have to try that.  You used to be able to do
>>
>>format a: /f:720
>>
>>from the command prompt but it won't do that either.
>
>It's crude, but a more reliable way if you want to format several disks is
>to get hold of an old W-98 or W-Me start-up disk and boot to that (instead
>of into XP). Since this creates a RAM disk on boot, and loads the format
>program into it, you can then swap to this, replace the startup disk with
>the disk(s) to format, and do it using the old program which will take this
>option.
>
>(You need to get hold of a genuine old system disk to do this. You cannot
>create it from XP. You can format and check "Create MS-DOS start-up disk",
>and the result will boot to the W-Me version of DOS (DOS 8) but it will not
>contain any utilities. The appropriate ones do not exist in XP, so you
>cannot even copy them to the disk, and you would have to have a FAT 
>partition (or configure a memory disk) to use them in any case.)
>
>David Harper

You can get hold of an image to put on a floppy from 
http://www.bootdisk.com/

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