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win 98 formatting
Name: Paulo Date: November 3, 2003 at 23:55:36 Pacific OS: win 98 CPU/Ram: pent 1/64mb
Comment:
just need to know if there is a way of formatting windows 98 without useing the boot up disk, and if there is how do you do it, also how do you format the regular way?
Name: sr2owens Date: November 4, 2003 at 05:53:02 Pacific
Reply:
If you are going to run format on your main boot drive on a running machine ,you are going to wipe out all your data. Format re-structures your hard drive. After you run "format" you must have the basic programs such as command.com and others on some type of disk. This will get your machine to recognize a floppy disk or CD. But if you must : it resides at C:\Windows\Command
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Response Number 3
Name: frank Date: November 4, 2003 at 11:30:06 Pacific
Reply:
You must boot from a floppy or cdrom drive to format the C: drive. You cannot format the C: drive if you have booted from it. As mentioned above, a format deletes everything on the drive.
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