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Reformatting A Hard Drive

Having installed Windows 98 I am experiencing problems. I need to start over from scratch with a clean hard disk and then reinstall Win 98. Can someone please provide an idiots guide to this process so that I do not make any mistakes?

sgenther

Basicly just create a boot disk with the cd-rom drivers on it and format the drive..."format c:\ /s". Then make a autoexec.bat and config.sys with the cd drivers in them on c: so when 98 reboots to load files it can find the cd. Then just run setup from the cd and you should be on your way.

sgenther

Oh dont forget to copy the cdrom drivers themselves to the c: drive.

bushhead

it's not that easy to 'just create a boot disk with cd-rom drivers'.

what i would advise you to do is this. put in your win98 cd. carry on with installation until it asks you to make an emergency disk or something. make that disk, then press cancel to back out of installation. you can then test that disk to check that all drivers etc are working, then from there, install win98 :)

worked fine for me. try it out.

bush

tonykoch

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Although I am reasonably computer literate I have little understanding of DOS. Therefore I was looking for a response that would give me step-by-step instructions. For example, I have created a Start-up disk using Win 98 setup. If I use the approach suggested by BushHead will this correct a corrupted Register or do I need to start over with a completely clean hard drive to get the best results?

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tonykoch

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I do not have a disk entitled CD rom setup. Are the necessary drivers for the CD drive included on the System Start-up disk?