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preciousjewel - 28 Jan 2005 09:01 GMT

I have an old computer that is win.3.11 I cleared the drive from the
instrucions of a pc world magazine. I don/t have a Cd to format it for win.95
or 98. Does anyone know the format for either one of these? Can they be
formatted without a CD?

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Jon_Hildrum - 28 Jan 2005 12:57 GMT

Yes - Get a boot disk from www.bootdisk.com

Get one for the operating system you intend to install.

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> I have an old computer that is win.3.11 I cleared the drive from the
> instrucions of a pc world magazine. I don/t have a Cd to format it for win.95
> or 98. Does anyone know the format for either one of these? Can they be
> formatted without a CD?

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Ron Badour - 28 Jan 2005 16:21 GMT

Retail versions of W95 and W98 CDs will not format a drive. If you have a
W98 CD, you can make a floppy boot disk with the Fat32ebd.exe file located
on the W98 CD: tools/mtsutil/fat32ebd or you can download one here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/ For formatting and installation instructions:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html

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>I have an old computer that is win.3.11 I cleared the drive from the
> instrucions of a pc world magazine. I don/t have a Cd to format it for
> win.95
> or 98. Does anyone know the format for either one of these? Can they be
> formatted without a CD?

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