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by aob_3

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I am trying to unistall Windows 2000 Professional on a Dell Optiplex GX150. Seeing as that Windows 2000 Pro is not letting me format the C drive (all programs have been closed, still get the message saying that I need to close all programs before formatting, however, all TSR programs have been closed) , and there is no accessable DOS shell around Win 2000 Pro to format on, how would I need to go about getting this OS off of the HDD so that I can reinstall Win 98? Would setting the drive as a slave to a HDD with Win 98 on, formatting the HDD, cloning the drive with Win 98 on, and setting back to primary be the best way to go about doing this, or is there an easier way? NOTE: I do not have the recovery CD for this unit. THANKS

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by burlynerd

I always keep a DOS or Win98 boot floppy on hand for things like this. You can get one from any local techie with a kind heart.

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by maxwell edison

Greetings,

Use your Windows 98 boot disk - WITHOUT the Win98 CD - and boot the computer on that disk. Or you could use an older DOS disk to boot up on. You will have to make sure that the boot sequence in your BIOS is set to boot on A-Drive first.

If you don't have a boot disk, you can make one on any machine (DOS mode) with the DOS command: format a:/s

Once you're booted up on that disk you can run fdisk and/or format.

Regards,

Maxwell

by maxwell edison

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P.S. If you do have to make your own boot disk (as described above), you will need to put Format.com on that disk. You could get that file from your existing Win2000 machine if necessary (or find it on the Internet).

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by john

Western Digital and Seagate have utilities to wipe the disk. This is what I have found to work best for giving a clean disk to install to. Check the Western Digital and Seagate site for the utilities.

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