How do I formate and Reinstall

[AshDog]

Can anybody tell me how to or give me an address that works to somewhere that will help me. I am sick and tired of paying the computer guy $70 ever time i [censored] my machine up and need to Format my hard drive and reinstall windows. So can any one give me step by step instructions on how to Erase everything of my hard drive and then how to set it up so i can install windows ME and have it running again. I have no idea what i need or how to start please help.

[MuffinAss]

The first thing I would do is get rid of Windows ME and get Windows 2000 Pro or XP Pro, or even Windows 98SE wi=ould be better than ME. But, if Me is all you have and are willing to invest in, then all you need is the ME installation CD and a boot floppy, all of the tools that you need are on the CD to format and reinstall. It\'s as simple as inserting the CD and floppy, and restarting.

[lglance]

i can help  got a dos disk i wrote for my  brother it will do all the work for you
. i agree with muffinass lose windows me
the bitch is not worth the greif.

the disk will format c:drive you will lose all data on c:drive
then it will start the windows  me installation .
i assume you have all your  drivers on removable media or a another  hard disk.  ie modem drivers sound card drivers network card   agp, drivers.
  IF YOU  DON\"T UNDERSTAND WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT  HEAD FOR THE SHOP.

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[MuffinAss]

One thing that I forgot to mention, get a good backup program like Drive Image or Norton Ghost. That way if you need to reinstall then everything is already the way that you want it with drivers.

[AshDog]

How do I make the Boot Floopy. Once I have this and the start up disk where do i go to tell it to formate the harddrive and then reinstall windows???

[bmbk]

first create a bootup disk ( at control panel -add remove program ). keep this disk safe. cause you will use this disk to reboot windows in dos mode, cause windows me does not support dos mode. insert the disk in your floppy drive then boot you computer ( make sure first boot device is floppy at bios ) . you will come up to a screen where u can choose start computer with cdrom support , start computer without cdrom support or minimal boot. choose start computer with cdrom suppport and enter. make sure u have the windows me cd . insert the cd into the cdrom drive. at the end of the \" start computer with cdrom drive process, you will be prompted the letter of the cdrom drive. remember that.  type the following at the screen \" x: \" where x is the cdrom drive shown. then type \" formatuq c: \"   this will format the drive.  after that type cd win9x . then type setup and follow onscreen instruction . you are done

[Anonymous]

Thnanks heaps. I finally worked out how to do it thanks to your posts Muffinass and bmBk everything works fine. As for this safe gaurd back up thing I have nortons 2002 antivirus and Utilities is there a back up device in these?

[Digitalfox]

try  http://www.majorgeeks.com/showfiles.php?cat=3
they have a list of back-up utilities.  I love there they have jsut about everythign you could ever want.