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| Thread ID: 65385 | 2006-01-16 09:34:00 | Problem reformatting | Tribomb (5547) | Press F1 |
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| 421609 | 2006-01-16 09:34:00 | Hi I am trying to reformat my old hard drive on my old computer to give to my friend, so that it runs a lot better. I have gone into BIOS and set boot to the CD drive, and the setup just stops before it begins! It is going from 98SE to 98, which is the only disk I have. It stops, giving me this error message: "Your computer may have a disk-compression program installed on it. Because this system may contain an existing operating system or data, setup cannot continue." Is there any way to fix/get around this? Thanks Mike |
Tribomb (5547) | ||
| 421610 | 2006-01-16 09:59:00 | Borrow a more modern CD to format the drive with | Greven (91) | ||
| 421611 | 2006-01-16 10:03:00 | Do you mean higer version, like Windows 2000? If so, I dont think that it will work because it has pretty bad system specs. | Tribomb (5547) | ||
| 421612 | 2006-01-16 10:08:00 | Have you tried fdisk, and delete the partition first? Then create a new one, reboot then format. |
Myth (110) | ||
| 421613 | 2006-01-16 10:14:00 | There isnt a partition on the drive. | Tribomb (5547) | ||
| 421614 | 2006-01-16 21:37:00 | You could try a floppy based boot, with the CD installed. I think it's about six floppies, and should be available on the web. | kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 421615 | 2006-01-16 21:43:00 | Do you mean higer version, like Windows 2000? If so, I dont think that it will work because it has pretty bad system specs. You don't need to install the later version of windows, just use the installer's superior partitioning & formatting abilities |
Greven (91) | ||
| 421616 | 2006-01-16 22:01:00 | Or, you could skip all of that and go to DOS before startup and type "format c:\" and hit "y" when it asks you... | DaveBritton (7395) | ||
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