oh buddyOriginally posted by smiles4me@8 May 2003 - 01:32
did hte reinstall on yahoo messenger...nothing....did a re-install of IE 6 still nothing....i am really dreading if I have to do a format.....have done it before but hate to lose everything againi don't know the answer but here are some hard won tips on reinstalling win98 after formating
next time you clean install partition your HDD into at least 2 volumes so that you can keep you data on a non system HDD better still get a second physical drive
you can usr fdisk or partition magic to partition a drive
when reinstalling i usually disconect the data drive while installing windows [just in case]
when you're ready plug it in and your in business again
it just makes the starting again from the format situation alot easier the deal with![]()
[one note :: once i had a data HDD formated as FAT32 by win2k when i went back to a 98se installation and used it to access the disk it said it found errors and would run scan disk - to cut a long story short 98 doesn't like 2k formatted FAT32 drives (it reads them but says that they have errors) - i stupidly let scan disk automatically fix errors and it rewrote the boot sector so that the drive was inaccessable, i had to buy 'getdataback' to retreive my data - so don't try this at home OK]
good luck
PS do you have a network adapter? if so beg borrow or steal a friends computer and a cross-over cable so you can move important files onto another box while you reinstall
it's much easier than backing up to external media like CDs![]()
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