reformating a hardrive windows 98

[rezin20420]

i have a freind that wants to reformat his hardrive with windows 98 and reinstall 98 can anybody give me a walkthrough on how to do this thanks in advance

 

[munkyeetr]

Can someone else please confirm these instructions, it's been awhile !

It's been awhile, but I think I remember the steps (I did it enough a few years back )

!! These are just the steps to format and reinstall, it is your responsibility to make any data backups or perform any operations you want before the formatting takes place !!

Create a bootdisk:

1) Put a floppy disk in floppy drive a:.
2) Start Menu -> Run -> command
3) In the Command Prompt window type:

format a: /s

This will create a bootable floppy disk.

4) In the Command Prompt window type:

cd c:\windows\command
copy format.com a:

This will put the format program on your floppy disk

5) Reboot and set your computer to boot from floppy in BIOS
6) When the finishes booting up change to drive a:

a:

Then format:

format c:

Answer yes when asked if you want to format and the formatting will take place.

Once the formatting is complete your c: drive will be empty. Remove the floppy disk.

7) Put your Windows 98 disk in the CDROM
8) Reboot (CTRL+ALT+DEL) and set your computer to boot from CDROM in BIOS
9) Follow the on-screen installation instructions.