pctechguide.com

Win98 Installation Drive Formating

With the Fdisk procedure completed, restart you computer with the Windows 98 Startup disk in the floppy disk drive and proceed to format the partitions you’ve created with a file system, using the Format tool as follows:

  1. When the Windows 98 Startup menu is displayed, choose the Start computer without CD-ROM support option, and then press Enter.
  2. When a command prompt is displayed, type:

    format c: /s

    and then press Enter.

    3. This command transfers the system files and should only be used when you format drive C (or your active drive). For all other partitions, type format drive: (where drive is the letter of the partition that you want to format).

    Warning

  3. A warning that all data on your C: drive will be lost is displayed.

    4. Enter Y, and then press Enter to proceed with the format of drive C:.

     

  4. After the format procedure is finished, you receive the following prompt:

    Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?

    5. This is an optional feature that you can use to type a name for the hard disk. Type an 11-character name for the drive, or leave it blank, and then press Enter.

  5. Format then prints a number of statistics, including the number of bytes comprising the total disk space, the number of bytes used by the system and the number of available bytes, culminating with a Volume Serial Number.
  6. You can format any additional partitions following a similar procedure to that used for the primary DOS partition above. The only variation is that the /s should be left off the format command.

Filed Under: How To Do a Clean Installation of Win98

Latest Articles

How to Remove AV Guard Online

AV Guard Online AV Guard Online is a bogus security client. Like most other malware clients this program shows you false and exaggerated scan results. All the error messages this program gives off are false. Why Did Someone Make AV Guard Online Money. Spammers and hackers can make money from this … [Read More...]

Control Usage of Endpoint USB Ports: Minimize Data Breaches

Data breach is a serious problem for all SMEs, irrespective of their size. The average total cost per breach has increased from $3.54 million in 2006 to $8.19 million in 2019. A report from Juniper Research suggests that by 2020, the average cost of a data breach will exceed $150 million. To … [Read More...]

LP to CD Connections

You can record from any analogue audio device that provides line-out terminals. Some analogue audio devices can be connected directly to your computer's sound card. However, the usual method for transferring material from vinyl LP is to connect the analogue audio device to a stereo pre-amp … [Read More...]

Guides

Recent Posts

How to Clear DNS Cache

Your DNS cache stores the locations of servers and web servers that you have recently viewed. These locations are the IP addresses of the places you … [Read More...]