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re: Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop
Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 1:23 pm
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Posted by DEX (11745 messages posted)


Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. 
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
-- Chinese proverb --

Jeff The easy way,,, go to bootdisk.com and download a win98se OEM boot disk, use it to make a boot disk. boot disk below ▼ http://files.frashii.com/~bootdisk/newjersey/boot98se.exe Once you have the boot disk made reboot with it. Use the fdisk.com to remove ALL the partitions, once you have that done format the drive with the /s switch format c: /s once it's done with the format copy all the files from the win98 cd from the win98 folder on the cd to a new folder on the HD called win98, once you have that done remove the boot disk and reboot, once you see the c:/> cd to win98 and type setup, windows will now install windows 98 on the the laptop...

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On Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 4:38 am, Jeff wrote:
>Hello all, I recently was given a Dell Latitude laptop with Win2K loaded on it. I'm
>trying to figure out how to format the HD so that I can make a clean install of Win98.
>My current laptop as this one doesn't have a floppy drive. How on Earth do I get
>this older Dell wiped clean (I also do not have ANY passwords, so logging in is short
>of impossible)????? Any ideas???????




Written in response to:
Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (Jeff: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 4:38 am)

Responses to this message:
*The Dell has no floppy, but... (DNA: Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 6:34 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (Jeff: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 4:38 am)
-Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 7:36 am)
-re: Darik's Boot And Nuke CD (Jeff: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 8:16 am)
-Booting from CD bypasses the hard drive's O.S. (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 9:29 am)
-Followup: How will you install 98? (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 12:26 pm)
*One argument for Win2K (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 12:39 pm)
-re: Formatting a Win2K Dell laptop (DEX: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 1:23 pm)
-The Dell has no floppy, but... (DNA: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 6:34 pm)
*re: The Dell has no floppy, but... (DEX: Sat, Jul 28, 2007, 8:14 pm)
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