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"Zeroed" my hard drive, now what?
- Thread starter reddhaus
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I used AutoClave and zeroed my hard drive. I believe you could also call it a low level format.
I know Win Me is crap but it is all I have right now. This is a very very old machine and I doubt XP would run very well if at all.
I just need to get the drive back to the point that I can install an operating system on it.
Anyone?
I know Win Me is crap but it is all I have right now. This is a very very old machine and I doubt XP would run very well if at all.
I just need to get the drive back to the point that I can install an operating system on it.
Anyone?
Bullitt
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Grab yourself a win98 boot disk. If you have XP you'll have to grab an image from the internet (search for "win98 boot disk" or "win98 boot floppy image") write it to a floppy, boot from floppy, run "fdisk", format, and install ME as normal. Be sure you get a disk image with the fdisk and format commands.
What I'm curious about is why your ME cd won't boot and give you the command prompt where you can fdisk and format. Its been on all versions since 95.
When you zeroed your hard drive, you wiped all partition and boot records from the device. It basically made it into the same drive it was when it was manufactured.
Alternatively, if you want, you can make a bootable CDROM with all those programs on it. You just need a bootable image and use Nero to insert it as a boot image (no floppy emulation) and put the format and fdisk executables from your winme cd onto that cd. Burn and boot, it will load faster than a floppy....
What I'm curious about is why your ME cd won't boot and give you the command prompt where you can fdisk and format. Its been on all versions since 95.
When you zeroed your hard drive, you wiped all partition and boot records from the device. It basically made it into the same drive it was when it was manufactured.
Alternatively, if you want, you can make a bootable CDROM with all those programs on it. You just need a bootable image and use Nero to insert it as a boot image (no floppy emulation) and put the format and fdisk executables from your winme cd onto that cd. Burn and boot, it will load faster than a floppy....
Bullitt said:
What he said. Get one here: http://www.bootdisk.com/
Bullitt said:
Actually, no they don't... I have any number of examples at my disposal to corroberate. My experience has actually been that most don't boot from the CD.
Bullitt said:
This is what I have done. You might even be able to use one of the boot disks from the above site directly as your floppy image. Then just copy all files from your CD to a folder to burn back to the new disc.
Good luck.
Bullitt
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uzor said:
Weird in my experience, they all booted in some way or another, they all didnt automatically run the setup from start to finish. My very first build was with a DIY computer and a win98se upgrade CD from staples. I bought it because the only requirements was (quoted loosely from my memory of the box) an existing licence of Windows 3.1, or win95. When I booted with the CD it informed me it was only an update, and would not continue. Boy was I let down, but I formatted my new 30gig 7200 drive (this was 1999) and manually ran "setup.exe" and it took off. when it asked for my existing copy of windows, I put in my Win3.1 CD and pointed the directory to the Cdrom, from there it was fat dumb and happy.
Needless to say, it felt amazing to bypass the instructions in the package on my very first PC build.At any rate, most of those boot images on the linky provided have the fdisk and format commands. If they dont, just use the bootable image and drag and drop those needed executables from your ME disk. You should be ok after that.