Can anyone give me an idiots guide to formatting my hard drive as its almost full and i want to scrub it clean and install a new OS
cheers
Daz

 

If it's a microsoft operating system, just boot to the CD and when given the option delete the partition.

 

what make is your hard drive if maxtor go to their site and download maxblast make the boot disc from the download.

boot from it ....it will allow you to partition and format your drives/s in seconds.

 

Would you believe that this confuses me?
I have a second PC running 98SE that needs a squeeky clean install. What's this partition business about?

 

Think of partitions as rooms on your hard drive. You may have one partition with everything in it or two, one for data one for the operating system. In fact you can have as many as you like, but you have to have one.

When you install a new operating system it will ask which partition you'd like to install to. It will also give you the option of deleting said partition and starting again.

 

I re-installed 98 without the format, but it still has issues, so i want to do a fresh install. I don't recall it saying anything about partitions
Is it not just a case of making a boot disk (which i need help with too ) and formatting the C drive which i need help with also.

Brun - at being thick

 

brun, i'm in your boat, i look in computer related and have picked up some great tips but most of the info just goes straight over my head

 

http://www.cyberwalker.net/faqs/how-...ll-win98.shtml

 

Right - i'm gonna give it a crack
Good work Jack

 

Right - the install appears to have gone fine! I am un-able however to get the display show more than 16 colours
The Graphics card is showing no errors so i'm stuck again

 

Brun

It's possibly installed generic vga drivers for your graphics card go to the makers of you graphics cards site and download latest drivers for it, install reboot and all should be well

Si