reformat

ok if you have a windows emergency disk or a dos boot disk do this:

boot the compter from disk then:
1) a:\fdisk /mbr to put a generic
partition onto the drive
2) a:\fdisk
and make only a single large partition
3) reboot still with floppy
4) format c:/s/v/u this will wipe the disk
and place a bootup operating system
onto it so people can see that it
works but will have to provide their
own full version op system.

There are more elaborate ways including doing a secure wipe drive process but this is a cheap and dirty clear.

regards
rick

You will have to boot to a floppy disk or cdrom to reformat the drive.

You can use a setup disk from dos, windows95 or windows98. As long as it has format.com on it.

When you boot from the startup disk you will come to an a:\ prompt. Type format c: /s

This will format the hard drive and install basic dos system files on the drive.

Lee