Formatting Through Dos

DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can't Comm.England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">How is it done?</div> OK this pc is coughing up so many god damn errors its
not even funny. Half-Life refuses to run and i'm
getting lots of lock-ups.

I have a boot disk and my Windows 98 CD ready.
I start the PC with the boot disc in, select
"Start PC with CD-ROM support" then what?
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  • LegionnairedLegionnaired Join Date: 2002-04-30 Member: 552Members, Constellation
    cd c:\
    format c:
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  • DoADrunkMonkeyDoADrunkMonkey Join Date: 2003-01-05 Member: 11902Members
    hmmmmm, should be a prog called fdisk on the boot disk? probably.

    and in their its got all the look at partictions and screw up partictions and stuff.
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  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    Bah darn kids don't know how to format in DOS? Wait I'm a kid and I konw how to do it....
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  • SaltySalty Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 6970Members
    I thought going threw dos was like the only way...
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    C:/format

    But make sure your BIOS Settings are to CD Start, this makes the Computer run from the CD ROM when it starts.
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  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    If your running win 98, just go to Start>Shutdown>Restart in MS-DOD mode <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> . (Then type : format c:)
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  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    win98 is of the age when computers didnt boot from CD's. so they made a boot floppy, you start the comptuer ont hat "without cd rom support" (actually it doesnt matter at this point)

    c:
    cd\
    fdisk

    from the fdisk program you want to erase all partitions, so go to delete partitions, once thats done, create a new partition of the maximum size, and FAT32 if it asks for the filesystem type.

    then you reboot, and come abck to the c prompt, and type format C:

    it says OMG R U SURE!?111 and you hit y.

    then it chugs away for a bit, and your left with a blank C:

    now reboot with cd rom support,

    and you have two choices, run setup from the cd, and let it go, or theres a few more steps you can take to make life easier on yourself in the long run.

    type this:
    c:
    md win98
    then go to the cd and find all of the .cab files, theyre probably in a folder called DRIVERS, so you would do
    E:
    cd DRIVERS
    copy *.* c:\win98
    c:
    cd win98
    setup

    ---

    now instead of copying from the CD it has the win98 cd on your harddrive in a folder called win98. this way whenever thething would say "insert your win98 cd to continue installing" it just wont, becasue its right there. its really a nice bit of help, because you kno yer gonna lose that cd and its gonna ask for it for some reason, but this way it wont!
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  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    Could someone walk a 17 year "old fogey" through formatting without DOS then just so I can keep up with teh times?
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  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    formatting without DOS?

    put the WinXp cd in the drive.
    press reset.
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  • SpceM0nkeySpceM0nkey Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12480Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--Zel+Jun 18 2003, 09:17 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zel @ Jun 18 2003, 09:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> formatting without DOS?

    put the WinXp cd in the drive.
    press reset. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    yeh.. seriously. after years of freaking around with boot disks for windows 95 and 98.

    I absolutely love my windows xp bootable cd.

    Fantastic, and you can set your partitions as you install.

    I format about twice a year now, cause its so easy.
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--OttoDestruct+Jun 18 2003, 10:03 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (OttoDestruct @ Jun 18 2003, 10:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Bah darn kids don't know how to format in DOS? Wait I'm a kid and I konw how to do it.... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I love the way I'm dubbed "a kid" for never needing to format
    a drive before :-/

    Anyways, I've printed out the important for future reference.
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Just to add my unrequested 2 cents, there is also a great resource and download site for anyone needing bootdisks for formatting PC's:

    <a href='http://www.bootdisk.com' target='_blank'>http://www.bootdisk.com</a>

    Every flavor of DOS (and various NT command shells) since doomsday. With drivers, without drivers, with partition tools, with everything. All made in easy to run floppy disk packages. An IT gem.
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