Hello Steve Lamb,
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:19:08 -0700 GMT your local time,
which was Friday, July 28, 2000, 6:19:08 AM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Steve Lamb wrote:
> Thursday, July 27, 2000, 3:54:30 PM, Tom wrote:
NA>>> Secondly, this may be OT for the List, but I've never reformatted
NA>>> before, and I do have a start-up disk that has all the necessary files
NA>>> and CD-ROM drivers, etc. What I'm not sure of, is the exact command to
NA>>> type in a DOS prompt that will clear my HDD. Is it just format C?
>> Before you do this!
>> Unplug your hard drive and make sure you can boot off of your floppy
>> and that you can see your CD. You wouldn't want to be reformatted
>> with no way of accessing these things! ;)
> Uhm... Why? No need to reformat the hard drive just to reinstall
> windows. Just delete the Windows directory. xdelete or xdel is the command.
or delete the system.dat/system.da0, user.dat and user da0 and the
various cabs in the system backup where under 98 the scanreg backups
are kept. make sure the windows setup files are on cd, and start the
setup from DOS!!!
Best regards,
tracer
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