invalid device parameters from device driver

George Aughenbaugh

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Jan 8, 2003, 1:12:34 PM1/8/03

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My daughter received an older computer as a gift and we are having
trouble booting up. We get the bio's screen, then it asks for the boot
disk, but we don't know what system is on it. So we are trying to
re-format the hard drive and load Windows 95. We've gotten great
directions on formatting, which we've followed but when we put in the
command "format c:/u/c/s" it asks are we sure and we answer yes and
then we get the following error.

invalid device parameters from device driver

Any ideas on what we need to do now?

Ben Myers

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Jan 8, 2003, 6:52:16 PM1/8/03

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Make sure the hard drive is set correctly in the BIOS.
Use autodetect if available.

Ben

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John Thompson

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Jan 8, 2003, 6:43:56 PM1/8/03

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In article <ac9f1be.03010...@posting.google.com>, George Aughenbaugh wrote:

> My daughter received an older computer as a gift and we are having
> trouble booting up. We get the bio's screen, then it asks for the boot
> disk, but we don't know what system is on it.

On the boot disk? Try typing "ver /r" at the A:> prompt.

> So we are trying to
> re-format the hard drive and load Windows 95. We've gotten great
> directions on formatting, which we've followed but when we put in the
> command "format c:/u/c/s" it asks are we sure and we answer yes and
> then we get the following error.
>
> invalid device parameters from device driver
>
> Any ideas on what we need to do now?

Separate your device and parameters with spaces:: "format c: /u /c /s"
DOS fdisk is sort of brain-dead about these things...

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George Aughenbaugh

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Jan 9, 2003, 9:53:04 AM1/9/03

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John Thompson <jo...@starfleet.thompson.us> wrote in message news:<slrnb1pdt...@starfleet.thompson.us>...

We've done the format c: /u /c /s and the format c:/u/c/s and neither
one works we get the same error message. We'll try the ver /r and see
how that works.

Binyamin Dissen

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Jan 9, 2003, 11:00:38 AM1/9/03

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On 9 Jan 2003 06:53:04 -0800 ocea...@netzero.net (George Aughenbaugh) wrote:

:>John Thompson <jo...@starfleet.thompson.us> wrote in message news:<slrnb1pdt...@starfleet.thompson.us>...

Use FDISK to display the partition information.

What does it show?

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philo

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Jan 10, 2003, 6:15:01 AM1/10/03

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with your boot floppy
a simple
format C:
should suffice

then with a cd support boot floppy you should be able to reinstall windows

if you still cannot form,at the drive by using the format C: command

you will have to run fdisk and delete everything
then recreate an active primary partition

then reboot and format the drive

Balaji

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Jan 28, 2003, 6:37:42 PM1/28/03

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ocea...@netzero.net (George Aughenbaugh) wrote in message news:<ac9f1be.03010...@posting.google.com>...

I too faced this problem. I suspect the reason is that you are trying
to partition and format the drive which is over 2045 MB. I can able to
replicate the problem when i tried using more that 4 GB. When i
repartitioned to 2 GB it worked fine. Check the primary partition size
it must not be more that 2045 mb

Balaji