when i try to reinstall windows from the recovery disks it gets to 99 percent and than an error occurs.. so i went to the gateway website and i saw a patch for people who r having problems like the one i am having. however i dont know how to install this patch because when i partition and format the drive and than install the recovery disks it wipes out the partitions.. if i do not partition the drive i keep getting an error message that my system is not in fat or fat32 and i might need to partition.how i do get these patch files from drive a to drive c: so the second disk wont get an error message any more thnx guyz. i was thinking about partitioning and than formatting the c drive so that it will recognize the drive and than maybe i can copy the files from the floppy disk to the c drive and than insert the recovery disks but than im thinkin that it will probably erase everything on the c drive so the patch gets deleted anyways any ideas guyz? what is the command to copy files from a to c in dos thank you

Create a small partition with fdisk and copy the files to the new partition At the prompt A:\ copy spaced:\. DO NOT TYPE THE WORD SPACE, RATHER LEAVE A SPACE!!! Include the file extension with the filename. When you have done this you will have these files to hand no matter how many times you recover. BTW if you make the partition large enough you can copy all the OS cab files from the windows folder after your recovery and then run a clean install from the d: drive without any recovery CD at all. You can also copy the system and inf folders and you then have all you drivers for the OEM installed cards, modems etc. whenever you want them. Good luck

This board doesnt like forward and backward arrow characters so my last post gave a rather odd lookin copy command line for DOs. I'll try again but this is not standard layout. This is an example, just type it exactly as you see it- a:\copy driver.drv d:\ insert you own filename and drive letter.