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My computer will not allow me to down load Windows 95 because it says that Compression driver How do I clean my hard drive and start with a clean hard drive

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by avi_mohod

Hi,
Best is delete the partiton and recreate it using fdisk.Create a new clean bootable disk boot from it and using fdiak first delete partition and reboot the machine.After rebooting it again recreate partition.After creation of partition format the partition.
avi.

by nannasharon4

you haven't told me how to create a boot disk with patition you have only told me to delete my old partition not how to create a new one your answer is incomplete

by shanghai sam

Hi,
Sorry that I give u answer incomplete as I thought that u know how to create boot disk.
To create a boot disk should have win95/98.Go to control panel select add/remve program and double click on it.The add/remove windows open.Then click on startup disk.Click on create disk and when ask about floppy disk Insert a blank floppy disk in floppy drive and click ok.
In this way u can create boot disk.
Now shutdown ur machine.Insert the boot disk in floppy drive and start the machine.Go to bios and put boot sequence as floppy drive boot first.
Save the setting and exit.
Machine will reboot and boot from boot disk.If u have created boot disk from win95 m/c it will driectly to a:\.But if it from win98 m/c it will first ask for boot with cdrom support or without it.If u have cdrom select first option or otherwise other.After u get a:\ ,type fdisk on prompt and hit enter.It will first ask for enabling large disk support.
If u have hard disk of large capacity like 8,10,20 or40 GB capacity then u should say yes. This option basically enable u to create partition of size more than 2GB.
After saying yes/no u will go to fdisk option. Here u can create or delete partition. There r four options.Create aprtition ,set active partition ,delete partition,partiton information. To create/delete partition should know about type of partition. So before trying this lpz update urself.
After creating partition format it and do installtion.REMENBER THAT BACKUP ur important data on hard disk before deleting partition ,once partition is deleting data will be lost.
avi.

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