Re: Windows NT

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Tim,

Make yourself a Win98 boot disk (from a Win98 machine), make sure it has
FDISK & FORMAT on it...

Boot from that, use FDISK to delete all the existing partitions on the
disk,
make whatever new ones you want, and the format them. Use the "Boot
with
CDROM support" option on the floppy disk, and you can install win98
straight
>from

Paul G.



>From: Tim Fuell <form@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: "'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ukha_d] Windows NT
>Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 12:16:21 +0100
>
>I weekend trip in the loft - quite literally - found me falling over an
old
>desktop PC I had stored up there and fogotten about. Pretty basic but I
>think it could do a job for me perhaps running my HA stuff.
>
>Problem is, it has Windows NT as it's operating system and having put a
>network card in it, now find that the network protocols etc are missing
and
>need to be loaded via the original disk. I can't find the said disk in
>amongst my many old software CDs - probably discarded in my last big
throw
>out, when I thought I had thrown this machine out too. Anybody any
ideas of
>a site I might be able to download the missing bits of software from?
>
>Alternative is to reformat the hard drive and reload with W98 and that
may
>be the preferred option but having had a bit of play yesterday I can't
work
>out how to reformat an NT machine to enable W98 to be loaded. Probably
>blindingly obvious, but I think the combination of sun and beer over
the
>weekend has scrambled my brain.
>
>Thanks
>
>Tim
>
>




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