"Insufficient Memory" when attempting reformat 1

[baracuda]

I have been attempting to reformat an old Gateway PII/6gb in MSDOS using the "format c:" command. It starts to scan the disk sectors and then comes back at about 2% of the scan with "insufficient memory". I have checked and fixed any bad sectors on the disk and also tried "format c: /s" but the computer doesn't respond to that command. The system does have an odd amount of RAM (something like 338 mb). I am trying to clean off the drive and planned on reinstalling WIN98. Any suggestions would be appreciated!

 

[micker377]

Did you "fdisk"? Remove all partitions and then create new partitions. After "fdisk" you have to reboot and THEN run format c: /s

 

[baracuda]

Woops. Never done this before -- I forgot about the fdisk part. Thanks!

 

[Blujacket]

Also could try format /u C:, does an unconditional format, doesn't save any unformat information.