Hard Disk Errors

  1. #1
    Tina is offline Newbie

    Question Hard Disk Errors

    Hello,
    I need some advice please. A computer that I am trying to fix will not let me reinstall Windows 98 SE. It says that I had some errors on the hard disk. Can I format drive c: and reinstall windows 98 without the windows 95 disk? If there is a way I can get this fixed please let me know.


  2. #2
    DJNafey is offline UK site moderator
    If you have a genuine Windows 98 SE CD and a PC that supports booting from a CDROM, then you should be able to put the CDROM in the drive as soon as the PC starts up and get it to boot from that. Then you might get a boot menu with an option to load up to a command prompt, rather than trying to run Windows.

    Once at the command prompt, you can use the Scandisk /all command to check the disk for errors in DOS.

    Then use the format c: /s command to format the hard disk prepare it for a Windows 98 SE installation.

    Then use the D:/Win98/Setup.exe command (assuming that D: is your CDROM drive letter) to run the Windows 98 SE installation routine.

  3. #3
    Tina is offline Newbie
    Ok I will try that and I will let you know how it went. Thanks for all of your help.

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