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Masterj710

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Hi,

I have a pentium 3 processor dell and it has windows 98se on it. I wanted to reformat the drive and upgrade to windows xp. Is this possible? How can i find out if it is?

Can someone give me directions on how to wipe out the hard drive and reformat it
 
I forget Windows 98. If it is possible, on Shut Down choose the option "Restart in MS-DOS mode. If not, Restart and tap F8 while you're rebooting. When you get to the boot options screen select the command prompt option and press enter (or Y, I forget.) When you get to the prompt, type "format c:" (no quotes) and press enter, confirm and it ishould take from about 45 seconds to 5 minutes depending on your HD size. When complete, open your CD-ROM drive and put in the Windows XP cd. Then manually turn off your computer. Turn it on and you should get a message: Boot from CD? or something like that. Press enter. You should be able to take it from here, for the formatting options select NTFS (quick). Hope this about covers it! :D
 
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