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formatting the hard drive with windows xp


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I want to clean my hard drive,so there is nothing on it. I have xp on a computer and I want to know if there is a way to put windows 98 on it.

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1. Start your computer with a Windows 98 boot disk in the floppy drive.

2. At the command prompt type format c:. When finished reboot with the boot disk in the floppy drive, and the Windows 98 CD in the CD-ROM drive.

3. At the command prompt navigate to the CD-ROM drive (type E:), type setup.

4. Follow the setup prompts.

5. When finished, Windows XP and all your old data/programs will be erased. You'll have a fresh installation of Windows 98 that you'll need to update at Windows Update. You'll also need to apply any needed drivers (video, sound, etc), and reinstall all your programs.
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