Going from ME to 98se, need to reformat HD, help?

[rwzewe]

I have a friend who has ME, and the operating system is totally corrupted, tried everything won't give it any more of my time. However she lost all of her original restore CD's that came with the computer. I happen to have a complete copy of Win98SE and told her I'd reload it in place of her ME. Then after that, I suggested that she upgrade to XP w/SP2.

It's been a while since I reformatted a harddrive, and since I'm going from ME to 98SE.....?

What's the process? Won't I need a boot floppy disk?
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[Jimmie]

If you dont have a bootable floppy disk, you can boot from the CD. But you have to check the BIOS configuration if the BOOT PRIORITY is set to CD-ROM. You can normally access the BIOS configuration by pressing the DEL key right after you restarted your PC when configurations appear on the screen. Then you need to go to the C:> prompt and type C:>\Format c:

Good Luck!

Jaime

Originally Posted by rwzewe

I have a friend who has ME, and the operating system is totally corrupted, tried everything won't give it any more of my time. However she lost all of her original restore CD's that came with the computer. I happen to have a complete copy of Win98SE and told her I'd reload it in place of her ME. Then after that, I suggested that she upgrade to XP w/SP2.

It's been a while since I reformatted a harddrive, and since I'm going from ME to 98SE.....?

What's the process? Won't I need a boot floppy disk?
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[mastercc]

u need a boot disk then load with cd rom support after that type fdisk then it will ask if you would like to support large drive press <y> then delete the primary drive then restart computer then do same thing but create primary drive then restart again then after loaded with boot disk type FORMAT C:/s.
After that goto where your cd rom is (ie:<d:>) the type setup.exe then goto town...

[hywaydave]

Originally Posted by mastercc

u need a boot disk then load with cd rom support after that type fdisk then it will ask if you would like to support large drive press <y> then delete the primary drive then restart computer then do same thing but create primary drive then restart again then after loaded with boot disk type FORMAT C:/s.
After that goto where your cd rom is (ie:<d:>) the type setup.exe then goto town...

You don't need a boot disk if your BIOS has support to boot from CD. You also don't need to run fdisk if you're happy with the way your HD is partitioned, you can just format it.

If the DEL key doesn't allow you to enter the BIOS config, watch the POST screen when your computer boots up. You should see something display like "Press (X) key to enter setup", where (x) represents any key they mention. They're all different depending on the manufacturer. Some common keys used are DEL, F1, F2, F10, and ESC. Good luck!