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To: Gottfried who wrote (6386)	10/21/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

You may know all this. Thanks, I wasn't sure how to proceed...have startup disk from original setup. I'm sure I'll need it in the future. thecow

To: Gottfried who wrote (6386)	10/21/1999 9:53:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110631

All, Philip Davis has built an overclocked PC and offers advice to anyone who wants to do the same. Message 11670107 G.

To: Gottfried who wrote (6386)	10/22/1999 11:19:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110631

Starting from a clean disk ... When you wish to wipe your disk and start over, you'll need some way of starting your computer when the hard disk is empty. A bootable floppy seems a straight forward way of doing this. Once the machine is booted, you'll need a way of getting your software installed. This usually means being able to read your CD drive. Again, configure your bootable floppy to support this requirement. Some of the files one should put on their bootable floppy ... Necessary ... MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS, and COMMAND.COM required for booting. CONFIG.SYS to load drivers, as well as those drivers needed by your system. Almost necessary ... FORMAT.COM to format disks. FDISK.EXE to partition disks. May be really handy ... EDIT.COM in case you need to edit a file. ATTRIB.EXE in case you need to change attributes. Hope this helps, PW. P.S. Quite a while ago, Rich posted a much more complete list of things to do to make a start-up floppy. Maybe someone who has the link will post it for us.