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Newbie
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| I need to know if you can reformat a hard drive to clean out everything on your computer and not have the original or any windows 98 operating system disk that came with the computer to reinstall the os. My computer is so meesed up I need to find a way to just start everything over. If you have a program on your computer like Norton Antivirus can you save the files need to install it on a disk uninstall the program could you use the disk to reinstal the program with the disk you transfered the files to? |
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Arcane Wizard
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Newbie wrote: I need to know if you can reformat a hard drive to clean out everything on your computer and not have the original or any windows 98 operating system disk that came with the computer to reinstall the os.
Sure you can reformat if you don't have the install cd anymore, why on earth would you need that to run format.exe?
Quote: My computer is so meesed up I need to find a way to just start everything over. Well, format will do that for you, and fdisk can do it even better if you also want to get rid of stuff on non-windows partitions.
Quote: If you have a program on your computer like Norton Antivirus can you save the files need to install it on a disk uninstall the program could you use the disk to reinstal the program with the disk you transfered the files to? Of course you can copy the files needed to install the program onto a disk, it's not like you can only run setup programs from your harddrive. |
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DarkerLine
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| Posted: 20 Jan 2005 06:53:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Reinstalling windows might help without losing too much data. |
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Newbie
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| Posted: 27 Jan 2005 09:59:19 am Post subject: |
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| How do you go about reinstalling windows without the install disk? |
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shadowing
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| Posted: 27 Jan 2005 10:13:56 am Post subject: |
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| I have no clue. If that's your case, you're kinda screwed until you get a windows CD. |
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leofox
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| Posted: 27 Jan 2005 11:19:43 am Post subject: |
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Newbie wrote: How do you go about reinstalling windows without the install disk?
you can lend one from a friend. That always works |
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optimize
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| Posted: 04 Feb 2005 08:44:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Hopefully you still have the product key? |
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NETWizz
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Okay
Fdisk is for messing with partitions.
It simply plays around with the Master Boot Record on the Hard Disk and sets size limits, types, bootable flags...
Format is for eraseing or creating a file system in a partitiion.
The program is actually format.com for windows 9x
You can make a startup disk from somewhere in Add/Remove programs
Then run c:\>format c:
That sould erase everything and leave you with an empty filesysystem.
There is no reasn to run Fdisk again. It doesn't do better. It is for a different purpose. Unless you are changing your partition there is no need. Just start over in your origional partition.
If you are going to install NT/2000/XP ... a different File System, use diskpart or whatever your OS comes with to delete your current partition and create a different one.
The real difference here is the flag type. NTFS is 07h where as FAT32 is something else.
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Now, you need your Product-Key and the Widnows CD
If your CD is an upgrade CD, you will need proof of having purchased a previous version of windows. Typically, it checks the hard drive for something (I don't know what) or asks you to insert a disk or CD as proof.
The Upgrade CD has all of Widnows 98 on it!
You can probabably skip the hastle above and boot off of the Widnows 98 CD. It with luck will then detect you have Widnows 98 installed and from there offer you the chance to do a clean install which means fomat and start over.
You should get a list of all drivers you will need and obtain them.
Write down any email information such as POP3/SMTP settings...
Get all your passwords together.
Save your Email, Favorites, My Documents, all Documents, any important Application Data, some Stuff from your Desktop ...
Get all of your programs together. You will need all the installation media.
You should get any Internet Settings, Passwords, Usernames perhaps phonenumers if you are unfortunate enough to be on dial up.
Proxy Settings...
Save everything you want to keep because you will loose everything when you start over. |
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