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Adam_B

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Registered: 13th Dec 00
Location: Lancashire
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30th Sep 05 at 10:57

I have this old PC on win 98, its got loads of crap and viruses on it, i have the original win 98 cd and a cd with all the drivers. How do i go about wiping it to start again? My freind wants it just to do word processing stuff.

Ta.

Dan Lewis

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Registered: 31st Jan 05
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30th Sep 05 at 11:01

put cd in cdrom, switch off then i think u press F8 and you change the boot command to cdrom then just follow instrutions

Adam_B

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30th Sep 05 at 11:04

ive just had a look at the PC and its on windows ME, i dont have a disc for that, is it going to cause problems?

Wayne

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Registered: 19th May 04
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30th Sep 05 at 11:24

no u can just put 98 on.

Wayne

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30th Sep 05 at 11:24

bring it over and ill sort it for ya

Adam_B

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30th Sep 05 at 11:27

now?

Wayne

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30th Sep 05 at 11:52

either after i finihed work or 2moz

Adam_B

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30th Sep 05 at 12:01

i need it done for tomorrow and im out tonight, dont want to skive off tomorrow, need the money

Wayne

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30th Sep 05 at 12:10

well im at work till half 5 and if ur out no chance lol

MarkW

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30th Sep 05 at 12:29

Boot from the 98 cd

select boot computer with cdrom support

commandprompt>format c:

choose yes blah etc wait 10 mins

when finished goto

c:\ then type md win98
then type cd win98

goto e:\ or whatever cd drive is

then type cd win98
then type copy *. * c:

about 70ish files will copy across, once thats done, goto c:\

on c:\win98 type in SETUP

go through all the setup etc, and then call me up when u need a special code

Adam_B

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30th Sep 05 at 13:21

we tried that, it kept saying bad command or file name when i tried format c:

MarkW

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30th Sep 05 at 14:02

get command prompt to the cd drive d:\ or e:\ whatever it is

type cd win98

at e:\win98>format c:

should work, if not call me