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Anonymous   01-28-2001 at 08:34:36 AM

I am giving my old computer to a relative and I want to make sure it is in the cleanest and newest state possible. This system is a Pentium Classic 166 MHz and has a 4 MB video card (ISA), Novell NE2000 Compatible Network Card, Rockwell 56K modem and sound blaster card. It has a 850MB HDD set as Master and a 1.8 GB HDD as the slave and a CD ROM as the Secondary Master. It has a really old BIOS that doesn't support the larger file systems, so I had to install the 1.8 GB drive with Maxtors special overlay device.

Now I want to clean up they system by reinstalling windows 98, but I don't know if it would be safe to format or repartition the hard drives. Any advice in this upgrading procedure would be helpful.

Thanks

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flavio321   01-30-2001 at 12:44:59 AM
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get partion magic and repartion the harddisk and then format the partion with the os... partition magic it make life so much easier...

If you can't beat 'em kill 'em
athlon "SLOTA" thunderbird 700@1050mhz

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Crashman   02-03-2001 at 01:48:01 PM
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You can also use the Maxblast software to partition and format the drive.

Suicide is painless...........

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