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Formatting My C Drive from a Recovery CD
I want to reformat my hard drive using a recovery CD that came w/my system. It does give me instructions but I am having a problem w/the 1st one. It says to Boot to the Emergency Recovery CD(it is bootable). Can anyone tell me how? I am using Windows 98. Please and thank you.
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Formatting My C Drive from a Recovery CD
"Verna" wrote:
I want to reformat my hard drive using a recovery CD that came w/my system. It does give me instructions but I am having a problem w/the 1st one. It says to Boot to the Emergency Recovery CD(it is bootable). Can anyone tell me how? I am using Windows 98. Please and thank you. Just put the CD into the drive and restart the computer. It should detect the bootable CD and boot from it. You may get a message saying something like "press spacebar to boot from CD" When the computer has booted from the CD you will get any additional information or instructions you need on the screen. Remember that doing this will totally and permanently destroy every bit of data that is currently on the hard drive, including all of the installed programs, all your data files and emails etc. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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Formatting My C Drive from a Recovery CD
Ron, thanks for replying to my question, but I'm afraid its was not that easy. I did try that. Do you have any other suggestions w/o manually formatting the hard drive. And yes, I am aware it will wipe out the entire drive and I will have to reload software. I would rather use the Recovery CD if I could get it to boot, it fairly simple thereafter. Thanks again, Verna
"Ron Martell" wrote: "Verna" wrote: I want to reformat my hard drive using a recovery CD that came w/my system. It does give me instructions but I am having a problem w/the 1st one. It says to Boot to the Emergency Recovery CD(it is bootable). Can anyone tell me how? I am using Windows 98. Please and thank you. Just put the CD into the drive and restart the computer. It should detect the bootable CD and boot from it. You may get a message saying something like "press spacebar to boot from CD" When the computer has booted from the CD you will get any additional information or instructions you need on the screen. Remember that doing this will totally and permanently destroy every bit of data that is currently on the hard drive, including all of the installed programs, all your data files and emails etc. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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Formatting My C Drive from a Recovery CD
"Verna" wrote:
Ron, thanks for replying to my question, but I'm afraid its was not that easy. I did try that. Do you have any other suggestions w/o manually formatting the hard drive. And yes, I am aware it will wipe out the entire drive and I will have to reload software. I would rather use the Recovery CD if I could get it to boot, it fairly simple thereafter. Thanks again, Verna Do you know how to get into the BIOS setup on your computer? On many computers when you first turn the computer on there is some text that appears before the Windows Startup Logo comes up. Included in that text you will usually find instructions about entering the Setup function. It may say "Press Delete to enter setup" or something similar to that. If you don't see anything like that then if you give us the make and model of your computer then we should be able to tell you how to get into the Setup function. Many "brand name" computers such as Compaq or HP use special procedures for this. Once in the Setup utility there should be a category named Chipset Details or similar and in this category you should find an item that describes the sequence in which the computer looks at the different disk drives when booting up. Very often this is set up with the hard drive as the first boot device, or perhaps the 3.5 diskette first then the hard drive. In order to use the CDROM drive as a boot device it has to be placed ahead of the hard drive in the sequence. If this is too difficult for you then you might be able to make it work by downloand a WindowsMe boot disk image from www.bootdisk.com and creating a bootable diskette from this. Boot your computer with that diskette and when it stops at the A:\ prompt change to the CDROM drive letter (the boot disk will tell you what drive letter has been assigned to the CDROM near the end of the bootup process), put your Recovery CD into the CDROM drive and enter the command SETUP So if the boot disk has your CDROM drive as drive D: you would enter the following two commands: D: SETUP If that does not work then enter the following command: DIR *.EXE /P Copy the list of file names reported and post that information back here. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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