unable to reformat hdd by DR-DOS?

Question

hello friends
my pc is booting from windows bootable cd but not able to reformat hdd / partition due to std. mode of DPMS.
How to disable std mode of DPMS(DR-DOS 7)
I m using DG 965 RY M/B.

Answer 1

wtf are u talking about.
what has reformating ur partition got to do with booting from a disc.

im not saying ur stupid, im just saying im stupid coz i dunno wat ur talking about.lol.
whats dpms.lol.

Answer 2

1st clear Ur Question
What I Understood partly is that you cannot boot into XP without Ur bootable CD.
For that thing U must restart ur pc keep pressing F2 as soon as your PC Starts Then Change The Priorities Of Your Drives
Give 1st Priority to Your Hard Disk Drive2nd to CD drive n 3rd to Your Floppy Drive U wont need the CD if you still require a Cd Change Your PC's battery It Cant Remember Your Configuration After Power is Lost Nd Then Try These Steps U Wont Get Any Problem N No Need To Format Ur Hard Drive

Answer 3

Possibly you are using a SATA hard drive and the motherboard needs the SATA floppy diskette to format or partition the drive. You can prepare the floppy from running the motherboard's driver CD in another machine which is running XP. After preparing it you should use it when you are booting the machine from the CD drive.Else you can enable the option in BIOS to recognise your hard drive as an IDE drive, if the option is present.

Answer 4

Since it will boot from the CD I would download the LiveCD of GParted from here:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
It will format Fat32, NTFS or many others. Since it is free it is the
a cheap way to go. It is slow at times to analyze the available drives so be prepared to wait a while.
Partition Magic at around $80 works great too.
Many of the Linux LiveCD's will partition in just about any file table you can think of. If you have Knoppix (or any other) give that a try.