Microsoft KB Archive/77426

= Setup /F on Machines Without a Formatted Hard Disk =

Article ID: 77426

Article Last Modified on 11/16/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q77426



SUMMARY
One common cause of the Setup error message

An error occurred while reading or writing to Drive C:

when running Setup with the /F switch is that the system's hard disk is partitioned but not formatted.



MORE INFORMATION
If the system's hard disk is formatted and partitioned, Setup /F will work correctly. If the hard disk on the system is not partitioned, Setup /F will also work.

However, if the hard disk is partitioned but not formatted, Setup /F will report the &quot;An error occurred while reading or writing to drive C:&quot; error message. You then have the option to &quot;Try operation again&quot; or &quot;Fail the operation.&quot; In most cases, if you fail the operation several times in a row, it will setup to floppy disks anyway. If not, you must either format the hard disk or remove the partitions.

Additional query words: 5.00

Keywords: KB77426

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