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by jimbell79

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Can someone please tell me the basics of reformatting my hard drive? Keep getting problems since going onto broadband!. I can put windows 98 back in but was advised against doing this, Anyway i prefer a fresh start. many thanks. jim

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by popeye_doyle

Boot off a WIn98 Boot disk.

If you don't have one, go to Add/Remove programs
Select the Startup Disk Tab & Create Disk. Boot
off disk & at the A prompt type format c: & press
return. (Before Running Format ensure you remove all peripherals).

by thechas

Since you have been having problems, I would go a step further than a simple format.

Boot from your W98 startup disk, and run the following commands from the DOS prompt;

fdisk /mbr press enter
format C: /u

The MBR switch in fdisk rebuilds the master boot record on the hard drives partition table.
The "U" switch for the format command forces format to perform a complete format, and not just erase the file allocation table.

Make sure that you have all critical data and settings backed up before you start.

Chas

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