Hello all, I recently was given a Dell Latitude laptop with Win2K loaded on it. I'm trying to figure out how to format the HD so that I can make a clean install of Win98. My current laptop as this one doesn't have a floppy drive. How on Earth do I get this older Dell wiped clean (I also do not have ANY passwords, so logging in is short of impossible)????? Any ideas???????

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Hi Jeff:

Does it have a CDROM drive which it looks at during booting?

Jerry

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Set the BIOS to boot from CD, then use the CD-equivalent of bootable floppy containing 
FDISK to remove the NTFS partition(s) and creaste FAT32 partition(s).

If you do not want to make your own bootable CD, there are many free CD images available 
for download.

For example, look at "the uluimate boot CD", which contains several disk preparation 
tools:

http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

Note the images are usually in ISO format, menaing that you need CD-writing software, 
which supports burn-from-image.  Do not simple drag&drop an ISO to a CD.






On Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 4:01 am, Jeff wrote:

>Hello all,

>

>I recently was given a Dell Latitude laptop with Win2K loaded on it. I'm trying 
to 

>figure out how to format the HD so that I can make a clean install of Win98. My 
current 

>laptop as this one doesn't have a floppy drive. How on Earth do I get this older 

>Dell wiped clean (I also do not have ANY passwords, so logging in is short of impossible)????? 

>Any ideas???????  

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Yes, I went into the setup F2 and set it see the CD-RO drive first, then the HD...

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Your query title said Win95, and if so, this would be the "right" forum, but the message body says Win2000, and this exact same description, maybe even some of the same words, appear in a message thread in THAT forum; it appears that both are the same.

It's called Cross-Posting, and is againt the forum rules.

.

Kiwi

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On Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 2:02 pm, Jeff wrote:
>Yes, I went into the setup F2 and set it see the CD-RO drive first, then the HD...

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