Re: Formatting my HD

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From: Andy
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:00

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Make sure you make a boot floppy disk with your CD drivers on it. And you'll
need FDISK and FORMAT.

Boot from your floppy, before it boots press F8 and select "SAFE MODE
COMMAND PROMPT ONLY" from the Startup Menu.

After the Floppy has booted you can reset your partition (only applies to
new harddrives really) with FDISK. If not ...

Type FORMAT C: /S

This will format your harddrive and place the system files on your drive.
Then give it a name such as "HARDDRIVE"

Reboot from your floppy drive to wakeup your CD drive without pressing F8.

Then reinstall Windows95/98

Andy

Patrick Kydd <Mr-P@ANTISPAMlineone.net> wrote in message
news:hlVfCGATY6D3EwaK@lineone.net...
> I want to format my HD and half know how to do it.  I know that you
> re-start your computer in MS-DOS mode, any type: FORMAT C:
>
> But when you restart I do not know what to do, nor do I know how to
> or what to copy, from the windows 95 start up disk.
>
> Please Help
>
> Many Thanks
> --
> Patrick Kydd
>
>

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