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 Apr 1 2008, 11:13 AM
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Anyway, I need to turn an ntfs drive back to fat32 so I can install 98 because xp has too much garbage running and way too much security crap. The problem is my floppy drive is busted and I cant boot from it, is there a win 98 boot cd? If there is, where can I get it? -------------------- Take what you can, give back nothing
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Apr 1 2008, 12:10 PM
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You know a floppy drive is only 7 or 8 bucks.
I think you can do that with any Live Linux CD Also check these out Bart's CD Ultimate Boot CD -------------------- Mark
 why won't my laptop work? Having grandkids is God's way of giving you a 2nd chance because you were too busy working your butt off the 1st time around Avatar by Handplane |
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Apr 2 2008, 06:23 AM
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QUOTE(supersquaw @ Apr 1 2008, 05:13 PM)  The problem is my floppy drive is busted and I cant boot from it, is there a win 98 boot cd? If there is, where can I get it? The Win98SE is bootable but if you want to use WinXP on another another partition then your going to need a floppy drive so you can boot from floppy, Fdisk the drive to make two partitions then Format them. As garmanma says they aren't much. 
This post has been edited by Keithuk: Apr 2 2008, 06:25 AM -------------------- Keith
http://www.martin2k.co.uk/forums I've been programming with VB for 12 years. Started with VB4 16bit Pro, VB5 Pro, VB6 Pro/Enterprise and now VB3 Pro. But I'm no expert, I'm still learning. |
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Apr 17 2008, 04:25 PM
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GParted will boot from CD and reformat - repartition your drive.
Very easy to use. http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ -------------------- |
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Jun 15 2008, 02:46 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: 8-April 05 From: Saskatoon, Canada Member No.: 16,513 |
hey guys it took a while for the advice, but thanks a lot, I can alwasy depend on y'all for help. I went to the torrents and downloaded an ILLEGAL copy of a bootable xp disk and all was well for a long while untill I downloaded a virus.
I reinstalled xp and now get a win32 services generic host window poopping up then my sound card doesn't work. bleepin xp. any Ideas guys? Help a brother out!! -------------------- Take what you can, give back nothing
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Jun 15 2008, 09:50 AM
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Computer Masochist Group: Moderator Posts: 6,220 Joined: 27-January 07 From: Cleveland, Ohio Member No.: 108,618 |
From our Forum Rules:
QUOTE No subject matter will be allowed whose purpose is to defeat existing copyright or security measures. If a user persists and/or the activity is obviously illegal the staff reserves the right to remove such content and/or ban the user. This would also mean encouraging the use or continued use of pirated software is not permitted, and subject to the same consequences. Subject is closed This post has been edited by garmanma: Jun 15 2008, 09:51 AM -------------------- Mark
why won't my laptop work? Having grandkids is God's way of giving you a 2nd chance because you were too busy working your butt off the 1st time around Avatar by Handplane |
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