Question..... that what i was asking if i could do it with out a disk im not talkin about formatting it i just want something where i can get this message off there when i log on to my homepage an so that it will stop blinking

ok man lsn, the Hard Disk that ur using seems to me like it NTFS format it should be FAT32 and to do that u need to Format ur Hard Disk drive by connecting it to any laptop near u and right click and thn format it as FAT32 and thats it :D cheerz and have fun, but if u still dont know how to do it, just take ur Hard Disk with u and go to any computer store near u and ask the guy to format it and make it FAT32 NOT NTFS.

Installing Windows 98, is you need a start-up disk (floppy disk) first before you can use the Windows 98 cd. The start-up disk will perform the partitioning and formatting of the HD...doing this, you have to boot from floppy drive first---after partitioning and formatting, you have change again the boot sequence to boot from cd then you can start the installation of Windows 98.

May be faulty floppy disk unit or the disk itself.

When you go to record something on it, a screen prompt will ask if you want to format the disk, usually. So drag some files to it, and see if the format window comes up. Hope this helps.

Make sure you start by deleting the old partition, and formatting C:. If it still locks up after that, then your hard drive is bad.

as the floppy drive does not require drivers, there must be something wrong with one of the following components.

either the disk you are trying to format is bad, easily tested by using another floppy.
or the ribbon cable is faulty, or plugged in backwards.
or finally, the floppy drive itself is broken.

as these things are like $10 new, you could just go to a pc hardware store and buy a whole new one, and swap the old one out.

no, checking the Hard Disk using windows tools does not format the hard disk. You data would still be there.

Try using Windows Disk Manager.
Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management
In the Tree-List on the right, you want Storage -> Disk Management if you can't see the tree-list select the appropriate button on the toolbar, you should be looking at something like this: http://attachments.techguy.org/attachments/129148d1206573004/disk-manager.jpg
Select your 'volume' from the list in the main part of the window and right-click. Somewhere in the menu it should say 'Format'. Select this and move through the stages.
(When asked use FAT or FAT32, not repeat not NTFS. NTFS is for Windows hard-drives only)

You can't retrieve data from those disks on whatever computer you're using it on. It apparently doesn't support the same format that you used save the data to the disks initially. I don't know what you can do, other than just trying the disks on any computer you can find that has a floppy disk drive until something works. Personally, I absolutely hate all the formats there are for removable disks. I have problems just like that with CDs all the time.
Well, good luck.

hi im wesley. and yes it can but only in time and may i ask why you format your hard drive every week?