RE: Windows NT

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Boot disc, either CD or floppy.

<At this stage you can use the fdisk command to alter the partitions
before rebooting and carrying out the rest>

Get a DOS prompt, type "format C:" IIRC, this should, by default,
format
the drive to FAT32 if it's Win98 you install.

Wait till it finishes.

Install any OS you like or the machine can handle!

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Fuell [mailto:form@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 May 2002 12:16
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: [ukha_d] Windows NT
> 
> 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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