If there is suspicion of virus, and if there is nothing on the machine you
want to recover and if you are making such a large change to the way it is
being used then re-formatting is justified.
It is done in Windows the same as DOS - Boot to a DOS startup disk and do
FORMAT C:
However, some preparation is worthwhile, so it would be best to follow the
procedure at the site Ron referred you to.
I would strongly recommend running hardware diagnostics for at least a day
before attempting to install the OS - you can waste a lot of time playing
with errors that turn out to be hardware, especially when you don't know the
history of the machine.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
wrote in message
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-----Original Message-----
Maybe you ought to tell us what the problem is and see if
we know how to fix
it. To answer your question:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html
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Regards
Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo
It is a Gateway 2000 originally with windows 95 and
upgraged to 98. the machine was donated to our charitable
group. I am trying to network it as an original
workstation. It will not network or go on the internet. It
says it has files missing. I have installed my windows 98
disk 5 different times and various other things. The
people that donated the machine didn't send the upgrade
disk. The anti virus software I installed found and
removed a virus. From my experience in the past when I had
virus damage my tec support walked me through re-
formatting the machine. I remember how to do it on the dos
machines but not windows 98. If you can help please do.
the machine is not worth what tec support would cost. It
will be used mostly for email, internet, calendar, and
word processing occasionally.
Thank you
"jody" wrote in
message
.. .
It's been a long time since i've done it in Windows 98
and
can't remember where to get started. Can you help? I
think
this is the only thing that will fix my problem.
Thanks
.