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re: You don't need to find a reset switch
Saturday, August 6, 2005 at 10:44 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ruth
(3 messages posted)
Thanks Kiwi - I made a system disk on floppy; then I ran Fdisk as you advised, after
booting up from the new floppy System disk, and followed the instruction (as found
on the Microsoft website for Windows95); But before erasing the partitions, I got
cold feet! When everything is deleted, I will have to re-partition the hard disk,
and I think I know now how to do this. But, how will I re-load the System afterwards?
I have found three original CDs - "System CD", "Microsoft Windows95", and "Microsoft
Office97". With these three disks will I be able to re-install the System as it
was before - and how will I do this? I would value your help. (As you see, I am
rather green in these matters) - Ruth
On Wednesday, August 3, 2005 at 8:14 pm, Kiwi wrote:
>But when you do, you will find it to be very close to the main power button, just
>smaller and harder to press by accident. You just need a Win9x series startup floppy
>with the Fdisk program on it.
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>Set the old PC's boot sequence to use the floppy, boot to the command line there,
>start Fdisk, and remove all of the partitions on all drives. Lots faster than running
>format, and harder to unerase by a ton. An expert with computers can recover most
>of the data you want "erased" if you merely reformat.
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>Norton's Utilities included a program that overwrote every cluster with nothing
but
>zeros; that was a better way to make personal data unaccessible.
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