Re: How to format your hard drive
 

Personaly for a setup of 98 I would do the following using a 98 cd or floppy to boot.

1. fdisk the drive and reboot
2. format the drive " format c: /s "
3. create a folder on the c drive and call it win98
4. copy the windows setup directory to the win98 folder.
5. Reboot with no disks or cd's inserted and you will be given a dos prompt.
6. chnage to the win98 folder
7. Run setup.

The above has two advantages.

1. Windows installs faster as it does not have to read if the cd.
2. All the cab files are available so windows will never ask for the cd when installing drivers ect.

Re: How to format your hard drive
 

xp though? :dunce:

Re: How to format your hard drive
 

If its a new drive then all you need to do is boot from the xp cd and xp will partition and format the drives for you.

If the drive is not clean then you can remove the partitions during xp setup or use something like disk killer to clear the drive.

If you need step by step instructions let me know and I will sort some out for you.

Re: How to format your hard drive
 

Not to but in Stuartb but as I was facing this same situation recently maybe this thread may help and hopefully give courage in the meantime until you can help out.

In particular THIS would have been helpful at the start.


There is sanity after an XP install too.Apart from old games not wanting to play. :(

Re: How to format your hard drive
 

For those wishing to install windows XP here is a fairly good link

and here for all other OS