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129964 2003-03-21 22:49:00 Information required as to the best way to completely clean the C drive so that I can do a clean reinstall of operating system and software.


Machine Pent 3 500mg
duel hard drives C 12 gig, D 20gig
128 ram
Pondey (3423)
129965 2003-03-21 23:08:00 Insufficient information.

Detail current operating system installed and current disk format type plus BIOS boot order.


Formatting methods vary according to disk format type
Merlin (503)
129966 2003-03-21 23:33:00 Chech the FAQ's, lots of info there. Danger (287)
129967 2003-03-22 01:15:00 If Windows 2000 or XP then boot from the CD and it will allow you to format as part of the install. Can't remember back to 98 but think so as well. Big John (551)
129968 2003-03-22 01:20:00 Make a windows boot disk. Restart PC with disk in. If it gives you a menu, choose start with CD ROM support. When you get to a: prompt, enter command format c: then reboot and pick menu as above. Note what drive letter it has given your CD drive, then enter cd ?: (?=cd drive letter) then enter command setup. If you do not get the menu, you will have to go into your BIOS and changed the boot start to a: drive first boot device. Pheonix (280)
129969 2003-03-22 06:07:00 And as I said if it is Windows 2000/XP then boot from the CD and you wont even need the floppy and the trouble trying to install from the floppys that some PC's seem to have. Big John (551)
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