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XP COMMAND DESCRIPTION
APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





FORMAT /AUTOTEST Formats the hard drive without any prompting.

Formats a disk for use with MS-DOS.

FORMAT drive: [/V[:label]] [/Q] [/F:size] [/B | /S] [/C]
FORMAT drive: [/V[:label]] [/Q] [/T:tracks /N:sectors] [/B | /S] [/C]
FORMAT drive: [/V[:label]] [/Q] [/1] [/4] [/B | /S] [/C]
FORMAT drive: [/Q] [/1] [/4] [/8] [/B | /S] [/C]

/V[:label]  Specifies the volume label.
/Q Performs a quick format.
/F:size Specifies the size of the floppy disk to format (such as 160, 180, 320, 360, 720, 1.2, 1.44, 2.88).
/B  Allocates space on the formatted disk for system files.
/S Copies system files to the formatted disk.
/T:tracks Specifies the number of tracks per disk side.
/N:sectors Specifies the number of sectors per track.
/1 Formats a single side of a floppy disk.
/4 Formats a 5.25-inch 360K floppy disk in a high-density drive.
/8 Formats eight sectors per track.
/C Tests clusters that are currently marked "bad."

EXAMPLES

When using the format command remember all information the drive you wish to format will be completely erased.

format a: - Would erase all the contents off a disk. Commonly used on a diskette that has not been formatted or on a diskette you wish to erase.

format a: /q - Quickly erases all the contents of a floppy diskette. Commonly used to quickly erase all information on the diskette.

format c: - This would erase all the contents of your hard disk drive. In other words unless you wish to erase all your computers information command should not be done.

FORMAT /BACKUP  Like /AUTOTEST but it will ask you for a volume label.
FORMAT /Z:n Command used with FDISK supporting FAT32, used to specify the cluster size in bytes where n is multiplied by 512.

APPEND ARP ASSOC AT ATTRIB BREAK CACLS CALL CD
CHCP CHDIR CHKDSK CHKNTFS CLS CMD COLOR COMMAND COMP
COMPACT CONTROL CONVERT COPY DATE DEBUG DEL DELTREE DIR 2
DIR ... DISKCOMP DISKCOPY DOSKEY ECHO EDIT EDLIN ERASE EXIT
EXPAND FC FDISK FIND FOR FORMAT FTP GRAFTABL HELP
IPCONFIG LABEL LOADFIX MD MEM MKDIR MODE MORE MOVE
MSCDEX NBTSTAT NET NETSTAT NLSFUNC NSLOOKUP PATH PATHPING PAUSE
PING PRINT PROMPT RD REN RENAME RMDIR ROUTE SET
SETVER SHARE SHUTDOWN SORT SUBST TIME TREE TYPE UNLOCK
VER VERIFY VOL XCOPY





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