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Old June 16th 04, 08:43 AM
Marsha
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Hi,
I have just (for the first time ever) reformatted the C
drive on my sons pc. I followed all the details to the
letter. It looks like it has reformatted but how do I get
back to Windows. I presume I am in dos (have black screen
with A:\) I assume this is asking me for a prompt. But
this is where I am stuck. This is my first time in dos
(and I think now my last!) can you tell me how I get back
to windows please (98). Thanks.
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Old June 16th 04, 01:20 PM
AlmostBob
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you Must have a boot disk with cdrom support, When you do boot from that
floppy disk, insert the Windows CDROM in the cdrom drive
type
[Drive]: where drive is the single letter of the cdrom drive and do not forget
the colon
setup

On re-installing windows you will only have basic vga video and most of your
hardware will not work, you have to re-install all the hardware drivers for
sound, graphic-card printer monitor modem cable-modem usb2 firewire
motherboard power-management scanner card-reader. If you do not have the
hardware drivers for the computer you will have to find the original cds, or
download the correct drivers from the manufacturers web sites

Then you will have to go to windows update and install all the relevant
updates
Then you will have to install all the software packages to the pc

Usually considered better to find out how and gather all the needed software,
before you start

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Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://security.kolla.de
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/
Catalog of removal tools http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
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"Marsha" wrote in message
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| Hi,
| I have just (for the first time ever) reformatted the C
| drive on my sons pc. I followed all the details to the
| letter. It looks like it has reformatted but how do I get
| back to Windows. I presume I am in dos (have black screen
| with A:\) I assume this is asking me for a prompt. But
| this is where I am stuck. This is my first time in dos
| (and I think now my last!) can you tell me how I get back
| to windows please (98). Thanks.


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Old June 16th 04, 03:02 PM
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You may even be able to just stick the Windows CD in the
drive when you boot up (make sure it is set as the Primary
Boot device in BOIS). Then select the Windows Setup
option.
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Old June 16th 04, 05:06 PM
Marsha
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Default Need to get windows back...

Thanks both of you for that, it turned out my cd rom
wasnt playing so I managed to load via my cdrw. Now the
next problem (oh my I will learn the hard way!). Having
got windows back I have the following problem with
hardware......
everything seems to have loaded on 'plug and play' except
1.a pci multimeader audio device and pci card. Prompts
come up telling me to install the drivers (as windows 98
cannot find them.
I thought I could download them from the internet (having
tried every disc I have) but although there is a
modem....

2.it has not been picked up by windows. I have tried
installing this with all the discs I have, but none seems
relevant or helpful. I actually ventured inside the
machine and found the modem but there is nothing on it
except 'made in China' and VRM V1.2
I have tried searching the net but nothing helps.

Are the two things related? Is the PCI thing the same
thing as a modem? What would you suggest I do now?
(except never venture this far again!!)
Hope you can help (not too technical stuff please) thanks
again. Marsha.



-----Original Message-----
You may even be able to just stick the Windows CD in the
drive when you boot up (make sure it is set as the

Primary
Boot device in BOIS). Then select the Windows Setup
option.
.

 




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