Help formatting a floppy disk with Workbench 3.0 on Amiga 600

[SilentBob]

Hi all, I am a newbie so go easy on me with the techincal stuff!
I have recently purchased an Amiga 600 for nostalga reasons and was playing a game and reached the stage where I needed to save my progress and asked me to insert a save game disk. I inserted a randon disk containing a game/programme that I was never going to use and assumed it would format the disk for me - but it didn't! It just stated disk full.
I've read bits and bobs on the internet and understand that what I need to do is use Workbench to format the disk. is that correct and if so could someone give me a dummy's step by step guide to doing it!?!
I tried loading Workbench, then inserting the disk I want formatting, clicking it once and choosing format disk from the tools menu but it doen't do anything.
Can anyone help!
Many thanks,

SilentBob       :-?

[SilentBob]

Thank you for your reply. I will try that and see what happens. So when I double click the shell icon it will bring up a prompt screen, is that right? And I then type in from there?

Thanks!

SilentBob   :-)

[SilentBob]

Hi, thanks for your help on this but I have tried typing this command on the Shell prompt and when I press return I don't get prompted to put a disk in, it just goes to a new prompt. Any more thoughts/help?

Thanks,

SilentBob     :cry: