[RESOLVED] My windows is messed up!

[tshano]

Im having this problem with my hard drive, it freezes everytime after an hour or so. My hard drive is 3 years old, quantum fireball, 5200rpm. I dont know if this is a windows fault or my hard drives fault. Secondly, I bought a new hard drive and installed windows in it. But since i have windows 98 on both of them and I try to run it with both of them on i think it corrupted some files. I really need to know how to erase windows 98 from my old hard drive, and yes i did go to add/remove program, but there is no uninstall windows option, please help.

[Darren Wilson]

Just Format it.

Exit out of windows to a dos-prompt, then type in 'format x:' replacing x with teh letter of teh second drive.

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[DocPC]

Get some, Darren...............

[tshano]

But I have important documents on both my hard drives. I just want to erase windows. Do you know how?

[Sowulo]

Boot to a DOS prompt and type deltree x:\windows where x is the drive that has the Windows you wish to remove and 'windows' is the correct name of the directory with the unneeded copy of Windows.

[tshano]

I forgot how to boot to dos, how do you do it again?

[Splat]

Create a DOS-bootdisk in Windows...go to Control panel/System/Create bootdisk...and then just boot your computer with it.

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[Sowulo]

Just press the F8 key when you boot the system and it says, "starting Windows 9x." Then choose "Command Prompt Only" from the menu.

[SiCkNuT]

Before I did that I'd probably just turn off the power management for the HDDs. Often the powering down of the HDDs when power saving kicks in is enough to freeze some HDDs. Give it a go!

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