03-07-2004, 11:22 PM
Rightho Beanie if you need to reformat your hard drive you need to make sure that you ahve the necessary tools and the knowledge that you are going to lose all of the drives contents.
To start with make sure you ahve backed up any important data to disc. From here onwards there are two processes you can follow. I prefer the first as it involves using DOS and a boot floppy.
Make a boot floppy or get one made for you. Make sure that it containts the file format.exe. Set your PC to boot from the A drive and pop your floppy into the A drive and reboot. The PC should boot to a DOS prompt that looks similar to this: A:\> At the prompt type in "format c:" (without the speechy magafters). You will be asked if you are sure you want to lose the contents of the drive to which you should say yes. It will tell you when it is done and you will ahve a nice clean drive to load windows to.
Now the second methond is the easier method and loading Windows is simply a continuation of the process.
Set your PC to boot from CD. Pop the Windows cd in and reboot. The windows install routine will appear. Follow the instructions - making sure that you chose the options to format your hard drive before installing windows. From there follow the instructions to install Mr Gates finest produce. Job done.
HTH
To start with make sure you ahve backed up any important data to disc. From here onwards there are two processes you can follow. I prefer the first as it involves using DOS and a boot floppy.
Make a boot floppy or get one made for you. Make sure that it containts the file format.exe. Set your PC to boot from the A drive and pop your floppy into the A drive and reboot. The PC should boot to a DOS prompt that looks similar to this: A:\> At the prompt type in "format c:" (without the speechy magafters). You will be asked if you are sure you want to lose the contents of the drive to which you should say yes. It will tell you when it is done and you will ahve a nice clean drive to load windows to.
Now the second methond is the easier method and loading Windows is simply a continuation of the process.
Set your PC to boot from CD. Pop the Windows cd in and reboot. The windows install routine will appear. Follow the instructions - making sure that you chose the options to format your hard drive before installing windows. From there follow the instructions to install Mr Gates finest produce. Job done.
HTH