I was able to come across a good deal on getting a Dell laptop. Although it has a Pentium II chip, I wanted to use it when away from home. I’m tight on money now, so I’m not in a position to buy a new one. I guess I could use my Compaq 286 DOS brick, but that’s too outdated and I haven’t used it for a few years (a museum piece, maybe).
A “friend” techie of mine (we all have them-or are one), thought he was doing me “a favor” and loaded XP Professional on the Dell. You guessed it, the laptop takes five minutes just to boot up and runs as slow as molasses in the winter. I have copied the files I want to save to a Zip disk, and want to start all over and reload the Win98 operating system. I have a bootable and SE disks.
I am not too technical, although, as an end user, I have been playing with computers for over 20 years, but would like to wipe the hard drive clean and start over again. What are my options in doing this? –Glen
