How to Re-Install Windows 9x

1. Go to Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs
2. Click on the Startup Disk tab, then on Create Disk and follow the instructions. Windows 98 users skip to # 5
3. Open Explorer and copy the following files to your startup disk:
   
   MSCDEX.EXE from C:\Windows\Command
   HIMEM.SYS from C:\Windows
   Your DOS CD-ROM driver (e.g. IDE-CD.SYS)
   Your DOS Mouse driver (e.g. MOUSE.COM)
   
   
4. Edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT & CONFIG.SYS to load your DOS CD-ROM driver & mouse driver (read the documentation that came with the CD-ROM drive and Mouse on how to do this)
   
   Example CONFIG.SYS:
   DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS
   
   Example AUTOEXEC.BAT
   @echo off
   ctload sbide.sys /d:mscd001 /p:170,15
   mscdex /d:mscd001 /v /m:8
   mouse.com
   
   
5. Backup your documents and any other data that is critical
6. Restart your computer with the startup disk in the drive
7. (Optional) At the A:\> prompt, type fdisk, answer y to turning on LBA (if asked), then go to Create primary DOS partition and follow the instructions. Exit when finished
8. At the A:\> prompt, type format c: and answer y to the question Are you sure?
9. Restart the computer with the startup disk still in the drive
10. At the A:\> prompt change to your CD-ROM drive (e.g. type d:)
11. At the D:\> prompt type setup and follow the instructions
12. After Windows is configured install all your applications

Contributed by GearHead