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How to thoroughly clean hard drive for Win98 installation?
I had Win2000 on a computer on which I have now installed Win98SE. At some
point when I was running Win2000 and Win98 dual-boot, I'm not sure exactly when, these lines began to appear at boot-up: Press Shift-Tab key to display network boot options menu Press Home key to boot from Local Drive I don't know why, because that computer was never part of a network of any kind. Those lines may have appeared after I updated to SP4, or perhaps it was after I installed PartitionMagic 8.0. Anyway, when I used Fdisk to prepare the hard drive for the new Win98 installation, meaning to reformat the whole thing in FAT32 of course, I ran into a problem because of the NTFS partition. This is a 60GB Western Digital drive and there doesn't seem to be any WD utility for low-level formatting it. There is a utility for writing zeroes to the whole drive and I used that, but I was still stuck with the NTFS partition and the above messages on boot-up. So I installed Win98 on the small FAT32 partition and then installed PartitionMagic again and used that to convert the remainder of the drive to FAT32. However, I am still getting those messages at boot-up about "network boot options menu" and "boot from Local Drive." Where are these things coming from, and how do I get rid of them? Is it possible in some way to fully, absolutely, thoroughly, COMPLETELY clean this hard drive to return it to its virginal, factory-new state? I would prefer to do that for a new Win98 installation rather than worry about what else might be left behind and lurking there. |
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How to thoroughly clean hard drive for Win98 installation?
"Old Geezer" wrote in message ... I had Win2000 on a computer on which I have now installed Win98SE. At some point when I was running Win2000 and Win98 dual-boot, I'm not sure exactly when, these lines began to appear at boot-up: Press Shift-Tab key to display network boot options menu Press Home key to boot from Local Drive I don't know why, because that computer was never part of a network of any kind. Those lines may have appeared after I updated to SP4, or perhaps it was after I installed PartitionMagic 8.0. Anyway, when I used Fdisk to prepare the hard drive for the new Win98 installation, meaning to reformat the whole thing in FAT32 of course, I ran into a problem because of the NTFS partition. This is a 60GB Western Digital drive and there doesn't seem to be any WD utility for low-level formatting it. There is a utility for writing zeroes to the whole drive and I used that, but I was still stuck with the NTFS partition and the above messages on boot-up. So I installed Win98 on the small FAT32 partition and then installed PartitionMagic again and used that to convert the remainder of the drive to FAT32. However, I am still getting those messages at boot-up about "network boot options menu" and "boot from Local Drive." Where are these things coming from, and how do I get rid of them? Is it possible in some way to fully, absolutely, thoroughly, COMPLETELY clean this hard drive to return it to its virginal, factory-new state? I would prefer to do that for a new Win98 installation rather than worry about what else might be left behind and lurking there. boot from a w98 floppy and use fdisk to remove partitions then format the drive. or if you want to keep your present partitions again boot from the w98 floppy then type sys c:/s Something like that anyway. I could find out all the information by using Google but why don't you try it first Tricia |
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How to thoroughly clean hard drive for Win98 installation?
"Tricia" wrote in message ... "Old Geezer" wrote in message ... [ . . . ] Is it possible in some way to fully, absolutely, thoroughly, COMPLETELY clean this hard drive to return it to its virginal, factory-new state? I would prefer to do that for a new Win98 installation rather than worry about what else might be left behind and lurking there. boot from a w98 floppy and use fdisk to remove partitions then format the drive. or if you want to keep your present partitions again boot from the w98 floppy then type sys c:/s Something like that anyway. I could find out all the information by using Google but why don't you try it first Tricia Tricia, thanks, but that's what I tried to do. I expected to be able to use a Win98 Startup Disk to remove all the partitions with Fdisk and then reformat, just as you say. I couldn't. It may be that PartitionMagic made some changes that interfered with Windows' normal partitioning methods. I'm just guessing here. |
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How to thoroughly clean hard drive for Win98 installation?
"Old Geezer" wrote in message
... "Tricia" wrote in message ... "Old Geezer" wrote in message ... [ . . . ] Is it possible in some way to fully, absolutely, thoroughly, COMPLETELY clean this hard drive to return it to its virginal, factory-new state? I would prefer to do that for a new Win98 installation rather than worry about what else might be left behind and lurking there. boot from a w98 floppy and use fdisk to remove partitions then format the drive. or if you want to keep your present partitions again boot from the w98 floppy then type sys c:/s Something like that anyway. I could find out all the information by using Google but why don't you try it first Tricia Tricia, thanks, but that's what I tried to do. I expected to be able to use a Win98 Startup Disk to remove all the partitions with Fdisk and then reformat, just as you say. I couldn't. It may be that PartitionMagic made some changes that interfered with Windows' normal partitioning methods. I'm just guessing here. If the NTFS (Win2K) partition is on a dos logical drive, fdisk cannot remove it. PM may be able to do so. WD's tools includes a tool for writing zeroes to the HD, takes 12-24 hours or more depending on the HD capacity and the I/O speed of your PC. This is as good as it gets for clean for the typical PC. Removing all with PM will probably suffice. Stick with either fdisk or PM to make your partitions. Don't mix these. |
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How to thoroughly clean hard drive for Win98 installation?
Is it possible that the boot-up message is being generated by the BIOS?
Simon "Old Geezer" wrote in message ... I had Win2000 on a computer on which I have now installed Win98SE. At some point when I was running Win2000 and Win98 dual-boot, I'm not sure exactly when, these lines began to appear at boot-up: Press Shift-Tab key to display network boot options menu Press Home key to boot from Local Drive I don't know why, because that computer was never part of a network of any kind. Those lines may have appeared after I updated to SP4, or perhaps it was after I installed PartitionMagic 8.0. Anyway, when I used Fdisk to prepare the hard drive for the new Win98 installation, meaning to reformat the whole thing in FAT32 of course, I ran into a problem because of the NTFS partition. This is a 60GB Western Digital drive and there doesn't seem to be any WD utility for low-level formatting it. There is a utility for writing zeroes to the whole drive and I used that, but I was still stuck with the NTFS partition and the above messages on boot-up. So I installed Win98 on the small FAT32 partition and then installed PartitionMagic again and used that to convert the remainder of the drive to FAT32. However, I am still getting those messages at boot-up about "network boot options menu" and "boot from Local Drive." Where are these things coming from, and how do I get rid of them? Is it possible in some way to fully, absolutely, thoroughly, COMPLETELY clean this hard drive to return it to its virginal, factory-new state? I would prefer to do that for a new Win98 installation rather than worry about what else might be left behind and lurking there. |
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How to thoroughly clean hard drive for Win98 installation?
Zap or Wipe freeware will remove all partition information so you can start
over fresh with FDisk. Download he http://www.microstorage.com/Harddriv...20Life%20Guard -- 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 "Old Geezer" wrote in message ... I had Win2000 on a computer on which I have now installed Win98SE. At some point when I was running Win2000 and Win98 dual-boot, I'm not sure exactly when, these lines began to appear at boot-up: Press Shift-Tab key to display network boot options menu Press Home key to boot from Local Drive I don't know why, because that computer was never part of a network of any kind. Those lines may have appeared after I updated to SP4, or perhaps it was after I installed PartitionMagic 8.0. Anyway, when I used Fdisk to prepare the hard drive for the new Win98 installation, meaning to reformat the whole thing in FAT32 of course, I ran into a problem because of the NTFS partition. This is a 60GB Western Digital drive and there doesn't seem to be any WD utility for low-level formatting it. There is a utility for writing zeroes to the whole drive and I used that, but I was still stuck with the NTFS partition and the above messages on boot-up. So I installed Win98 on the small FAT32 partition and then installed PartitionMagic again and used that to convert the remainder of the drive to FAT32. However, I am still getting those messages at boot-up about "network boot options menu" and "boot from Local Drive." Where are these things coming from, and how do I get rid of them? Is it possible in some way to fully, absolutely, thoroughly, COMPLETELY clean this hard drive to return it to its virginal, factory-new state? I would prefer to do that for a new Win98 installation rather than worry about what else might be left behind and lurking there. |
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How to thoroughly clean hard drive for Win98 installation?
Have a look here and select the category on the left for you setup:
http://thpc.info/dual/removedualboot.html --=20 Brian A. Jack of all trades, Master of none. One can never truly be a master as there is always more to learn. "Old Geezer" wrote in message = ... I had Win2000 on a computer on which I have now installed Win98SE. At = some point when I was running Win2000 and Win98 dual-boot, I'm not sure = exactly when, these lines began to appear at boot-up: =20 Press Shift-Tab key to display network boot options menu Press Home key to boot from Local Drive =20 I don't know why, because that computer was never part of a network of = any kind. Those lines may have appeared after I updated to SP4, or perhaps = it was after I installed PartitionMagic 8.0. =20 Anyway, when I used Fdisk to prepare the hard drive for the new Win98 installation, meaning to reformat the whole thing in FAT32 of course, = I ran into a problem because of the NTFS partition. This is a 60GB Western = Digital drive and there doesn't seem to be any WD utility for low-level = formatting it. There is a utility for writing zeroes to the whole drive and I = used that, but I was still stuck with the NTFS partition and the above = messages on boot-up. So I installed Win98 on the small FAT32 partition and then installed PartitionMagic again and used that to convert the remainder = of the drive to FAT32. =20 However, I am still getting those messages at boot-up about "network = boot options menu" and "boot from Local Drive." Where are these things = coming from, and how do I get rid of them? =20 Is it possible in some way to fully, absolutely, thoroughly, = COMPLETELY clean this hard drive to return it to its virginal, factory-new state? = I would prefer to do that for a new Win98 installation rather than worry = about what else might be left behind and lurking there. =20 |
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How to thoroughly clean hard drive for Win98 installation?
"Simon" wrote in message ... Is it possible that the boot-up message is being generated by the BIOS? Simon I doubt it, Simon. I'm 99% sure those boot-up messages just started appearing at some point, though I'm not sure at exactly what point. "Old Geezer" wrote in message ... I had Win2000 on a computer on which I have now installed Win98SE. At some point when I was running Win2000 and Win98 dual-boot, I'm not sure exactly when, these lines began to appear at boot-up: Press Shift-Tab key to display network boot options menu Press Home key to boot from Local Drive I don't know why, because that computer was never part of a network of any kind. Those lines may have appeared after I updated to SP4, or perhaps it was after I installed PartitionMagic 8.0. Anyway, when I used Fdisk to prepare the hard drive for the new Win98 installation, meaning to reformat the whole thing in FAT32 of course, I ran into a problem because of the NTFS partition. This is a 60GB Western Digital drive and there doesn't seem to be any WD utility for low-level formatting it. There is a utility for writing zeroes to the whole drive and I used that, but I was still stuck with the NTFS partition and the above messages on boot-up. So I installed Win98 on the small FAT32 partition and then installed PartitionMagic again and used that to convert the remainder of the drive to FAT32. However, I am still getting those messages at boot-up about "network boot options menu" and "boot from Local Drive." Where are these things coming from, and how do I get rid of them? Is it possible in some way to fully, absolutely, thoroughly, COMPLETELY clean this hard drive to return it to its virginal, factory-new state? I would prefer to do that for a new Win98 installation rather than worry about what else might be left behind and lurking there. |
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How to thoroughly clean hard drive for Win98 installation?
Thanks, Ron! That looks like just what I need.
I'll get that right away. O.G. "Ron Badour" wrote in message ... Zap or Wipe freeware will remove all partition information so you can start over fresh with FDisk. Download he http://www.microstorage.com/Harddriv...20Life%20Guard -- 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 "Old Geezer" wrote in message ... I had Win2000 on a computer on which I have now installed Win98SE. At some point when I was running Win2000 and Win98 dual-boot, I'm not sure exactly when, these lines began to appear at boot-up: Press Shift-Tab key to display network boot options menu Press Home key to boot from Local Drive I don't know why, because that computer was never part of a network of any kind. Those lines may have appeared after I updated to SP4, or perhaps it was after I installed PartitionMagic 8.0. Anyway, when I used Fdisk to prepare the hard drive for the new Win98 installation, meaning to reformat the whole thing in FAT32 of course, I ran into a problem because of the NTFS partition. This is a 60GB Western Digital drive and there doesn't seem to be any WD utility for low-level formatting it. There is a utility for writing zeroes to the whole drive and I used that, but I was still stuck with the NTFS partition and the above messages on boot-up. So I installed Win98 on the small FAT32 partition and then installed PartitionMagic again and used that to convert the remainder of the drive to FAT32. However, I am still getting those messages at boot-up about "network boot options menu" and "boot from Local Drive." Where are these things coming from, and how do I get rid of them? Is it possible in some way to fully, absolutely, thoroughly, COMPLETELY clean this hard drive to return it to its virginal, factory-new state? I would prefer to do that for a new Win98 installation rather than worry about what else might be left behind and lurking there. |
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How to thoroughly clean hard drive for Win98 installation?
Thanks!
O.G. "Brian A." GoneFishn@aFarAwayLake wrote in message ... Have a look here and select the category on the left for you setup: http://thpc.info/dual/removedualboot.html -- Brian A. Jack of all trades, Master of none. One can never truly be a master as there is always more to learn. "Old Geezer" wrote in message ... I had Win2000 on a computer on which I have now installed Win98SE. At some point when I was running Win2000 and Win98 dual-boot, I'm not sure exactly when, these lines began to appear at boot-up: Press Shift-Tab key to display network boot options menu Press Home key to boot from Local Drive I don't know why, because that computer was never part of a network of any kind. Those lines may have appeared after I updated to SP4, or perhaps it was after I installed PartitionMagic 8.0. Anyway, when I used Fdisk to prepare the hard drive for the new Win98 installation, meaning to reformat the whole thing in FAT32 of course, I ran into a problem because of the NTFS partition. This is a 60GB Western Digital drive and there doesn't seem to be any WD utility for low-level formatting it. There is a utility for writing zeroes to the whole drive and I used that, but I was still stuck with the NTFS partition and the above messages on boot-up. So I installed Win98 on the small FAT32 partition and then installed PartitionMagic again and used that to convert the remainder of the drive to FAT32. However, I am still getting those messages at boot-up about "network boot options menu" and "boot from Local Drive." Where are these things coming from, and how do I get rid of them? Is it possible in some way to fully, absolutely, thoroughly, COMPLETELY clean this hard drive to return it to its virginal, factory-new state? I would prefer to do that for a new Win98 installation rather than worry about what else might be left behind and lurking there. |
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