- How to format drive
- Posted by Ron G on October 13th, 2004
My wife's four year old HP laptop got a virus that has killed our
capacity to execute files. Virtually nothing will run, including the
virus checker, the computer telling me it cannot find the Start.exe
file. I cannot do a regedit to follow some instructions on getting rid
of the registry files that may be causing the problem.
The computer came without an operating system and I had installed Win98
on it and would now like to upgrade to Win98se. However, I cannot figure
out how to format it. I cannot do it from within Windows and when I go
to a boot disc I cannot do it from the C/: drive. When I put in an
emergency disc from our old Fix-It program the formatting feature there
does not work. The virus seems to have really hosed a lot of functions.
Any solutions? Should I copy a format.com file from another computer
onto a floppy and try to do the C drive? Presumably there is something I
can do to clean up and start over. My wife uses the laptop only when she
travels and so there are very few programs, and no important data, on
it. Thanks for advice.
- Posted by Old Gringo on October 13th, 2004
Ron G wrote:
I have to believe this is just a typeO as it should be C:\ ??
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- Posted by G. Morgan on October 13th, 2004
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:14:42 -0400 "Ron G"
used 18 lines of text to write in newsgroup: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
Have a floppy?
http://www.bootdisk.com/
-Graham
Remove the 'snails' from my email
- Posted by °Mike° on October 13th, 2004
Rename "regedit.exe" to "regedit.com" and then run it; be
sure to rename it back once you have sorted things out.
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:14:42 -0400, in
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Ron G scrawled:
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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html
- Posted by Billh on October 14th, 2004
Boot off your Windows CD or a Windows 98 start floppy disk. once you are
at the A prompt not the C prompt, type format c: and press enter.
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