Glad that I could be of any use 
btw, that format command line is from good old DOS 6.0 days 
cheese and rice! 
all done.after lotsa bourbon and too much chilli pizza(and too many burning late nites on the can:eek she’s all done.all i have left is the last of the drivers to put on and i hope all this pays off.
p.s thanx heaps to Jimbo and HighCv2 for all ur help.
high cv if u read this formatc:
with the pararameters /q/s is not reccomended for format reinstall and reboot
using the quick command dosent identify bad sectors on your drive and therefore can cause problems in the future by allowing those sectors to be written to
a bootable hard drive does not contain the wrtite atapi cd rom support to install windows either it is still highlt reccomended to use a boot disk by me #