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To: Zeuspaul who started this subject	9/23/2001 4:51:01 PM
From: Dan Duchardt	Read Replies (2) of 14778

I have a rather fundamental question about my PC running Windows 98 A little history About a year ago I installed a new disk drive, partly out of fear that my original drive was showing a large (to my mind anyway; something like 700K+) bad bytes in however many clusters, but also just so I would have an independent drive to keep some backups on. An attempt was made to do a disk copy from the old disk with 2 partitions to the new disk, and that sort of worked although there were some weird things about the partitions that took a while to work out. In doing so, all the bad sectors on the old disk were marked on the new disk. I eventually managed to get the new disk re-configured to a single partition with the strange partition things eliminated, but it still kept all those bad sector marks. Then I reformatted the original disk and in that process managed to clear every bad sector mark from it. Subsequent scandisks have always given it a clean bill of health. What I Need Now I am now having a few intermittent problems running from my new (year old) primary disk, which contains the OS and all program files. I'd like to clean it out and start from scratch. I have done a full backup of that primary disk to my second disk using Microsoft backup, so in principal I should be able to reformat the primary and reload everything. The question is, how do I get the OS reinstalled? I seem to vaguely recall the need to make the primary disk a system disk when I format it to make it bootable, but if I reformat it I no t have Windows installed. I'm not even sure it will boot up in DOS after the reformat, but I can of course make a bootable floppy. I would appreciate it if someone could point me to a place to get good instructions on how to accomplish this task, or at least list the steps and I'll do the work to study up on the details. Assuming I can boot up from a floppy, if I put an executable copy of backup on my second disk, will I be able to reinstall windows by simply restoring it from the backup file (I may not want to anyway; but just in case all else fails) or is the only way to get it back to do a full install? TIA Dan

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