Hello
I Want to wipe my HD and reinstall win ME but have a slight dos problem. when i try to format my HD, says format is bad command or file name, i remember the dal home page had the command needed to extract the format command from the boot disk, but cant find it now.
thanks in advance.

When the Microsoft Windows Startup menu is displayed, select the Start computer without CD-ROM support menu option, and then press ENTER.

At a command prompt, type in, without quotes, "format C:" (where "C" is the drive partition you are formatting) and then press ENTER. You will then receive the following prompt:

WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)?

Press Y, and then press ENTER to format drive C.
After the format procedure is finished, you receive the following prompt:

Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?

(Note: This is an optional feature that you can use to type a name for the hard disk.) Type an 11-character name for the drive, or leave it blank (recommended), and then press ENTER.

I was still getting bad command or file name (treble checked spellings). The format utility was not on the start up disk, i had to physically find it on the ME installation cd and copy it to the floppy and then it worked.

so now its sorted, thanks for the reply

Glad you're sorted