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reformat hard drive
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 |
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reformat hard drive
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 -- 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 "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 |
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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 -- 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 . |
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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. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (DTS) wrote in message ... -----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 -- 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 . |
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-----Original 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 . You have to start your computer up with your Windows startup disk on a floppy drive. That will give you CD rom support so your CD will go online when it starts in DOS mode. If you dont have a startup disk you can make one by going to Contol Panel Add or Remove Programs Startup Disk Tab at the top. That will make you a bootable floppy. Then you need to be sure that your A drive is the first drive in the boot order inside your computer setup, accessed when you first start the computer in the first few seconds, keep pressing either F1 or F10 depending on the machine or sometimes DEL and you will get into the bios setup where you want to look around till you find Boot Order and if A drive isnt first, then follow the prompts to make it first, then go to exit and save. Now shut down the computer. Put the bootable floppy into the A drive and start the computer. It should boot up from the A drive and not the hard drive and give you the option to start with CD rom support which you want to choose. Watch the screen as it scrolls info, but most systems the ramdrive ends up being lableled as D and the CD rom get the letter E. When its done booting up youll be looking at a dos prompt with the letter A:\ Type D: and press enter. You should now be at a D:\ prompt. Now type DIR and press enter and you should see files scroll up the screen, one of which is "Format.com". When you see that now you can type at the dos prompt the following string exactly. format c:/s This tells the system to reformat your hard drive and put the bootable startup system files onto the drive when finished formatting. This takes usually 10 to 30 minutes depending on the size of you hard drive. You will get a warning that you are about to lose all information on drive C: ARE YOU SURE, and then say yes. When the format is all finished, it will let you give a name to your hard drive up to 11 letters, or no name at all, then press enter and restart your computer with the floppy still in the drive. Again start with CD rom support as your choice, and when its all booted up and at an A;\ prompt then you caught which drive letter got assigned to your cd, I hope. If not start the system again and watch closely. If it says near the end of the bootup that your CD got the letter of E: then at the A:\ prompt type the following: E:\setup and press enter. The CD will start spinning and prompt you on from there. Hope that helps. If you need any talking thru it I can be reached at 415-370-3288. |
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... 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. If that is the problem: which files are missing? My guess is some communicationsfiles are missing. Take a look at: Configurationscreen - software - tab windows setup - doubleclick on "communications" and place a checkmark before all items. And click your way back by clicking OK. Grtz, TR |
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