[olug] Corel Linux Reformat - Thanks!

[Bunnigrrrl]

Thanks for all your help! Yes, I have a disk that it can boot with, and it 
also tells the computer it has a CD drive (pretty important). Here's one 
place I found that has such a boot disk with CD support: 
http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/win98/install/clean.html
I really appreciate all the suggestions, and I'll let you know how it goes.

At 12:02 PM 9/10/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Angela...
>     I apologize. I should have been a little more comprehensive in my 
> explaination. Here is the full deal: First, as has been pointed out, you 
> need to do Fdisk. Next you need to remove all non dos partitions. Then 
> remove any dos partitions that may have hung around. Next, select item 1 
> to create a dos partition. After that select item number 1 to create a 
> primary dos partition. Then it will run through the disk. it will ask you 
> if you want the maximum available amount dedicated to this partition. 
> Select yes. Then once that is done. Select option number 2 to set an 
> active partition. Set item 1 in the list.. the only item listed here to 
> active. Then hit the escape key to leave fdisk. It tells you, you need to 
> restart the machine. After that reboot the machine. Make sure your have 
> your Windows boot disk, like I said earlier, preferably a Win 98 Boot 
> Disk, if possible. Then after you have rebooted.. type format c: at the 
> DOS prompt. It will ask you if you want to format... just say y for yes. 
> Then it will format. Once formatting is complete. switch to the CD-ROM 
> drive (for example... cd d:) then hit enter then type setup and the 
> Windows cd should begin running. You should be good to go from there. 
> Again.. make sure you have the device drivers for all of the hardware 
> available. After Windoze has installed then you must install teh device 
> drivers and you will be good to go from there.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:    Bunnigrrrl bunnigrrrl3 at home.com
>Sent:    Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:02:36 -0700
>To:      olug at bstc.net
>Subject: [olug] Corel Linux Reformat
>
>
>Hi,
>
>Does anyone know of a way I can reformat my Corel Linux box back to
>Windows95? (Normally I wouldn't do this, but I don't think my 90 year-old
>grandfather is ready for Linux!). There is a DOS prompt option on startup,
>but if you choose that option, it just says "non-system disk error, press
>any key when ready" and goes back to the menu. Since I can't even get into
>DOS, I can't begin to imagine how I would do a reformat. (It's a Pentium 75
>with 48 MB of RAM).
>
>Thanks,
>Angela
>
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