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Xp reformatting
Name: Dan C Date: October 5, 2003 at 19:02:56 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: 1.3 athlon/356
Comment:
My cpu has become screwy and has multiple problems. i want to reformat the hard drive, and then run windows 98 os. how do i reformat?
Name: kkk Date: October 5, 2003 at 19:08:41 Pacific
Reply:
www.bootdisk.com download a win98 system floppy. boot to a: a:\fdisk in there remove all partiitons and reboot back to a: open, say yes to lba reset the c; partition and make it active. then format, a:\format c:/s [note the forward slash]
reboot, choose cdrom support, e:\setup presto
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Response Number 2
Name: Jarrod Powell Date: October 5, 2003 at 19:22:08 Pacific
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you will also have to download delpart to get rid of the NTFS partion if you want to go back to 98
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Response Number 3
Name: Jarrod Powell Date: October 5, 2003 at 19:24:09 Pacific
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there is nothing on the windows 98 boot disk that will get rid of the NTFS partion you have to use delpart it's a easy program to use
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Response Number 4
Name: teri Date: October 5, 2003 at 20:29:13 Pacific
Reply:
Use fdisk. It is on the Win98 boot disk. Works well for removing NTFS partitions.
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