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To: H Peterson who wrote (4417)	7/13/1999 1:17:00 AM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

hey hp, re: " Is there a utility on WIN95 to do a bootable floppy?" yes there is. win95 will create a "startup disk" that is not only a boot disk, but also includes several utility and diagnostic programs. to make a startup disk in win95, go --> start, settings, control panel, add/remove programs. then click the startup disk tab in the properties dialog. re: "Does anyone know of a good write up that walks you through a reformating of the hard drive?" i'm looking. if i find it, you'll have it. :) mark

To: H Peterson who wrote (4417)	7/13/1999 9:41:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

Boot disk stuff ... This guy really knows his stuff. He's been kind enough to post boot disk instructions. Message 8051423 Hope this helps, PW.

To: H Peterson who wrote (4417)	7/13/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

Backup before experimenting... I meant everything. Windows has 'must have' stuff spread all over the place and you (I) have no clue just where everything is, so back up the whole disk, because if things go wrong, you'll probably need to restore the whole disk. Also back up personal stuff. Once you have a 'fresh' system running just fine, you don't want to reload corrupt stuff from the old system: You just want your own data back. (It wouldn't/shouldn't cause problems.) I'll defer to the Master for the boot disk stuff ... Message 8051423 NO! A bootalbe floppy contains COMMAND.COM, MSDOS.SYS, and IO.SYS! Anything else was put there to augment the disk's utility. Note: some of these files are hidden. Formatting a disk is easy. Getting things put in a safe place before formatting is hard. "FORMAT C:" and 20 minutes is all it takes. Suggestion... If you're going to have a 'blank disk' on you hands, give some thought to your partition sizes. This is an ideal time to make any alterations. If you had the space, I'd recommend a partition large enough to hold a backup of your system. Next time you have trouble, just restore from that partition. The process will take an hour. You're about to discover that loading from scratch takes much longer. Note: Windows should fit into 2-3 hundred meg easily. (Compressed!) Hope this helps, PW. P.S. For comparison, my whole system, Win98, Office97, development, financial, trading, and personal stuff in a compressed image, is 175 meg. Compressed image of Win98 alone occupies 94 meg.

To: H Peterson who wrote (4417)	7/13/1999 11:37:00 AM
From: wily	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110631

Hi folks, I'm baaaaaaack! I was exiled for not keeping my SI subscription current. Now I'm in for life so I'll have to do something really bad to get exiled again (or die...). Anyway, it was really nice of some of you to miss me. Seems that folks are still getting their problems solved without me. Let's see, where's that monkey wrench... HP, Couple extra suggestions: Get someone to email you the files from the Win98 Startup Disk. It has the CD drivers which will eliminate the hassle of having to configure the win95 disk to enable your cd. I'll send them if you like. All you'll have to do is copy them to a floppy and then "sys" the disk from win95. When you go to your b-i-l's, bring the computer back with you. It'll take the pressure off and you'll be on-line while you're working on it. You might consider installing win98 rather than win95. One reason not to do this would be if the computer has an older (slower) processor. OTOH, for a couple hundred bucks (or less) you could add some memory and a faster processor. Stuff is real cheap now. Check PriceWatch for AMD chips that will fit on a socket 7 board (K6-2). You won't want to go over 64 MB of RAM though without getting a super 7 mobo. HDD's are cheap too. 8 GB for $125 or less. It's easy to add a HDD if you know how to format and install an OS. And finally, you might want to consider getting Drive Image from PowerQuest (or Ghost from Symantec -- I don't know how this compares in functionality). It's the best thing... w