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by gary

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I am need to reinstall win 98. I want to wipe the dick clean and start over, too many problems. When I do this I understand that I will also have to install drives and a few other things again from a system disk. Is this done before installing 98or after or do I have to do it at all.

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by texascoyote

Back up your driver files then reinstall them after you install 98. If the drivers don't work then download them from the manufactures site. I have done this with 98 on several machines.Sometimes you can just reinstall 98 over the same install. hopethis helps.

by dmiles

The drivers for peripheral devices need to be reinstalled,after you wipe the drive clean , so you will want to do a backup or better yet go to vendor sites and download the latest drivers,before you wipe the drive

You will have to reload your applications and programs also after wiping the drive clean

by thechas

This sequence works best for me:

Back up files.

Download the latest drivers and backup onto portable media. (CD, Floppies)
Use either www.belarc.com
or www.sisoftware.com
or www.freshdevices.com
to create a list of needed device drivers.
Create startup disk.

Boot from startup disk.
run fdisk delete ALL partitions.
Reboot, run fdisk create desired partitions.
Reboot, format C: /u/s
Insert Windows CD, run setup.

Install device drivers in the following order:
Motherboard /system / chipset
DirectX (from Microsoft)
Video card
Modem
Sound card
Other devices

Boot into safe mode, and defragment the drive.
Install desired Windows Updates.

Install application software.

Chas

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