I need to know how I can remove windows 98 from my hard drive without actualy reformating it. Its my old hard drive from my old computer and I would like to use the files on it on my new pc, but windows 98 on that machine lost some files so i cant transfer from old to new. When I put it on my new machine, it just tried to load Windows 98 and failed. So if theres a way to do this please let me know. Thanks

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Using DOS... sorry.

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Do you have a cd burner?Is it"mean your old hard drive"in your new computer.It should,nt try to boot to this harddrive.I can on only say at this point....Tell alot more info.I.E. new computer with new hard d,using old hd??????????????????????????????????????????


On Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 3:30 pm, Daes wrote:
>I need to know how I can remove windows 98 from my hard drive without actualy reformating
>it. Its my old hard drive from my old computer and I would like to use the files
>on it on my new pc, but windows 98 on that machine lost some files so i cant transfer
>from old to new. When I put it on my new machine, it just tried to load Windows
>98 and failed. So if theres a way to do this please let me know.
>Thanks
>

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Win98 and DOS are not readily separated and I doubt that is the solution to whatever 
you are trying to do.  Do you have a new drive in the new PC or are you trying to 
use the old drive in the new PC?  Or are you trying to copy programs to the new PC 
without having to reinstall?  Clarify what it is you  are trying to do and also what 
is wrong with the old hard drive.  Last question - do you have a Windows 98 CD? 






On Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 3:30 pm, Daes wrote:
>I need to know how I can remove windows 98 from my hard drive without actualy reformating 
>it. Its my old hard drive from my old computer and I would like to use the files 
>on it on my new pc, but windows 98 on that machine lost some files so i cant transfer 
>from old to new. When I put  it on my new machine, it just tried to load Windows 
>98 and failed. So if theres a way to do this please let me know.
>Thanks
>

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I dont have the Windows 98 CD, it came pre installed when I bought the machine.


On my new computer, I have a Hard Drive, but its running low on space, and I wanted to add the old computers hard drive onto my new computer, having two hard drives and also access to my old files. But when I set it up on my new computer, with the two hard drives, it would try to boot up windows 98. But there are corrupted files and files missing on the 98 Machine that are disallowing it from sucessfuly booting. So what I want to be able to do, is clear the operating system off of the old hard drive completely but still have the information. Thanks.


On Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 6:24 pm, Oh_Dear wrote:

>Win98 and DOS are not readily separated and I doubt that is the solution to whatever 
>you are trying to do.  Do you have a new drive in the new PC or are you trying to 
>use the old drive in the new PC?  Or are you trying to copy programs to the new 
PC 
>without having to reinstall?  Clarify what it is you  are trying to do and also 
what 
>is wrong with the old hard drive.  Last question - do you have a Windows 98 CD? 
>
>

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That makes more sense.  First be sure the jumpers on the old drive are correctly 
set - for slave if it is on same cable as new drive.  You can put old drive on second 
IDE cable and choose for it to be master or slave - depending on where the CD drive 
is.

If old drive then works, you can use Windows Explorer (from new drive) to clean out 
unwanted files on the old drive.  If it doesn't work OL, come back with details






On Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 2:09 pm, Daes wrote:
>I dont have the Windows 98 CD, it came pre installed when I bought the machine.
>

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Well, i cant work on it again till wednesday. But heres how its set up. # = IDE Slots on MB | = IDE Cable |-New HD |-CD Drive | # #-----------Old HD


On Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 5:05 pm, Oh_Dear wrote:

>That makes more sense.  First be sure the jumpers on the old drive are correctly 
>set - for slave if it is on same cable as new drive.  You can put old drive on second 
>IDE cable and choose for it to be master or slave - depending on where the CD drive 
>is.
>
>If old drive then works, you can use Windows Explorer (from new drive) to clean 
out 
>unwanted files on the old drive.  If it doesn't work OL, come back with details
>
>

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..since it didnt show up right i made a quick image http://airax.net/image/uploaded/hd.gif


On Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 5:44 pm, Daes wrote:
>Well, i cant work on it again till wednesday. But heres how its set up.
>
># = IDE Slots on MB
>| = IDE Cable
>
>|-New HD
>|-CD Drive
>|
># #-----------Old HD
>
>

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OK - notice the layout showed up in the follow on post to your message.  In that 
layout, the old hard drive should not be the boot drive.  If he PC is booting using 
the old hard drive, then there must be something wrong with software on the newer 
drive, or the BIOS is set strangely.

To be sure newer drive is OK, disconnect old drive and boot.  If that gets to Windows, 
then try this.  Make a boot floppy.  Copy deltree.exe from C:\Windows\Command\ to 
the floppy.  Shut down and reconnect the old drive on second IDE cable.   Boot from 
the floppy.  At the A: prompt, enter
deltree /y d:\windows
del d:\command.com
Shut down then boot without the floppy.






On Sunday, February 23, 2003 at 6:05 pm, Daes wrote:
>..since it didnt show up right i made a quick image
>
>http://airax.net/image/uploaded/hd.gif
>
>

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How do I remove windows 98 completely from my system,so dat i can load win xp onto it

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