Help with reformating....

Ok heres my problem... Old computers HD has so much junk on it, and has so many errors that I just want to reformat it and reinstall win98 on it. Only problem is I don't exactly know how to go about doing this. Most HDs ive reformated came with disks that you just pop in, boot from it, and can reformat and install OS from there, but this one has no disk. I know you can reformat your HD with the winxp install disk if I wanted to put that on there, but not sure if a P2 400, 256mb sdram system could handle it. Thanks for any help https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/.../2005/06/5.gif

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• Althon XP 1600+
• Asus A7M266
• Maxtor 40g 5400rpm
• WD 8g 7200rpm
• Visiontek Geforce3 Ti200
• 256mb Crucial DDR
• WinXP Pro

Go to Maxtor's web page and check for their downloadable utility to reformat

Phffff you said you wana install win98. well get a hold of a Windows98 start up disk. boot the computer with that and when you get to the A: prompt type FORMAT C: /S The /S only makes the hard drive bootable with out using the win98 start up disk. if you need more help just IM me

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Athlon XP 1600/NoOC
Epox EP-8K7A
GeForce2 MX400 64MB
Voodoo3 2000 16MB PCI
256MB DDR 2100
Windows XP Pro
Dual 17in Monitors
6x Toshiba DVD
12x8x32 Acer CD-RW
WD 20GB HD-master
WD 40GB HD-slave

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Originally posted by PilatusInc:
Phffff you said you wana install win98. well get a hold of a Windows98 start up disk. boot the computer with that and when you get to the A: prompt type FORMAT C: /S The /S only makes the hard drive bootable with out using the win98 start up disk. if you need more help just IM me

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this is exactly what you can do, no need for the maxtor disk

Much help thanks!

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• Althon XP 1600+
• Asus A7M266
• Maxtor 40g 5400rpm
• WD 8g 7200rpm
• Visiontek Geforce3 Ti200
• 256mb Crucial DDR
• WinXP Pro