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Old 28-06-2004, 15:55   #19
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Re: How to format your hard drive

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Originally Posted by WNA
...After installation of DOS take the disk out the floppy drive and open your CD Rom drive and place your Windows CD in. then i usually type D:\ and then return but obiously substitute the letter for your drive. You will then get D:\ ...
...EDIT: For Windows 95/98 before installing you MAY need to install your cd rom drivers...
Rather than using a standard msdos floppy, it would be better to use a w98 startup disk. I have to use this with my w98 pc as it would not recognise the d: drive otherwise. A w98 startup disk contains generic drivers for CDROM drives. It also has FDISK & FORMAT commands, so you can do it all with the floppy.

Not sure if you can create a startup disk in safe mode though.
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