Make a new floppy boot disk and use it per the instructions he
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html


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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
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"BR&Y" wrote in message
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im trying to reformat to reinstall on a clean disk i used the fdisc tool
and now need to format the disk but when i type formatc: i get a" bad
command or file name message" ,i also tried extractebd.cabformat.com but get
the same result i have the boot disk and the install cd what can i do to get
passed this?......................ive also tryed the start w/cdrom support
and tried the setup.exe from the cd rom drive but after a message displays
about checking system registry it then freezes up at a message saying
something about to install a required amount of disk space needed but the
whole message dosent complete