Step by step on reformating

[quantum207]

here's it is...i messed something up when trying to upgrade with a partial 98se upgrade...now it won't boot to windows at all with a boot disk i can get to an A:\ prompt but that's about it what do i need to do to reformat....i'm pretty good in windows but dos i have no clue so i need a step by step on how to reformat my hd and reinstall win95

any help would be great

 

[mastermynd27]

What you need is a win95 boot disk. Boot to the floppy, and type in fdisk. In fdisk you can format your entire drive which can take from 15 minutes to 2 hours depending on your cpu speed and size of the drive. After your drive is wiped, all you have to do is put the win95 disk back in the cd-rom and do a clean install.

 

[DaiShan]

if you have the OS install cd, you can list cd-rom as first boot device in bios, then when it boots it will ask if you want to boot from hard disk or cd-rom, you say cd-rom, then you say start computer with cd-rom support, type d:\ (where d is the drive letter assigned to your cd-rom) type fdisk, delete the old partition, reboot by pressing ctrl+alt+del, then go through the same steps except this time when you type d:\ type setup after it and follow the onscreen instructions. Hope this made a little sense

 

[jmagg]

1 a: fdisk
2 delete all partitions
3 create primary dos partition
4 reboot with cdrom support (notice which drive letter is your cdrom)
5 a:format c:
6 Put os disk in cdrom
7 switch to cdrom drive letter
8 e: setup (or whatever drive letter is your cdrom)




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