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| Thread ID: 43653 | 2004-03-22 09:25:00 | FORMAT HARD DRIVE how ? | rdee (1809) | Press F1 |
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| 224369 | 2004-03-22 09:25:00 | HI,I have an old Acer Travelmate 512T with Windows 98 & IE5.5.I want to format the hard drive & install Windows 98SE from a CD I have, then give it away to a family member.It has a 10GB hard drive with no partions.I want to get rid of 5years downloads. Cheers rdee | rdee (1809) | ||
| 224370 | 2004-03-22 09:32:00 | Pull out your faithful Win98 boot disk and type format c: Then change onto the CDROM drive and type install. |
JohnD (509) | ||
| 224371 | 2004-03-22 09:33:00 | Sorry - not very clear instructions - boot from the boot disk first! | JohnD (509) | ||
| 224372 | 2004-03-22 09:36:00 | of course it has a partition. if it didn't, it wouldn't run. if you can get into bios, there may be low level format. try that. if not, put in the cd, re boot and do "re-format and re-install" hope this halps :) |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 224373 | 2004-03-22 09:37:00 | start the computer with a 98 boot disk. then type format c: at the command prompt. also i think it may give you the option to format during setup if you boot from the cd. (apologies, i can't quite remember, it's been a long time since i installed 98) no doubt someone will confirm this shortly. |
nadius (3249) | ||
| 224374 | 2004-03-22 10:22:00 | Gee you blokes are quick.I will try that tomorrow.I know it will not format during setup. | rdee (1809) | ||
| 224375 | 2004-03-22 10:24:00 | Low level formats are seldom if ever needed on modern hard drives - I am not sure why this has been recommended? | JohnD (509) | ||
| 224376 | 2004-03-23 01:21:00 | Thanks to all,again.I did the FORMAT C: thing & it worked fine.I had tried this out before but missed then important : Thanks rdee | rdee (1809) | ||
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