i think it is about time to reinstall windows

[KeyboardCowboy]

alright, my mom's friend brought me her computer over today, she bought it about 3 years ago she said, it is a pretty good system, 450mhz celly, 15 gb hdd, 128mb of ram, fine for what she needs it for

the computer is getting alot of invelaid page fault errors and various other ones and a few BSOD's

now, i need to reinstall windows 98se

what is the best and safest way to reinstall an windows on a single drive computer???

she has quite a collection of mp3's on this machine and alot of work for school/job and it can't be lost


any suggestions?

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by KeyboardCowboy
alright, my mom's friend brought me her computer over today, she bought it about 3 years ago she said, it is a pretty good system, 450mhz celly, 15 gb hdd, 128mb of ram, fine for what she needs it for

the computer is getting alot of invelaid page fault errors and various other ones and a few BSOD's

now, i need to reinstall windows 98se

what is the best and safest way to reinstall an windows on a single drive computer???

she has quite a collection of mp3's on this machine and alot of work for school/job and it can't be lost


any suggestions? I would create a new partition (big enough for the data needed to be saved) and boot in to windows, drag her important data over to the other partition.Then boot from a win98 floppy and type fdisk and reformat the win 98 partition then reinstall ....she should keep this other partition for her valuable data .....

[KeyboardCowboy]

then just get rid of the partion afterwards?????

[rUfUnKy]

Originally posted by KeyboardCowboy
then just get rid of the partion afterwards????? If she dosn't want the other partition then yes,after you reinstall windows and drag all the saved data back from the data partition on to the new windows partion..you can then boot from a win98 floppy again and fdisk then follow the instructions to delete a partion....Just make sure you delete the right partition...

[jw50]

A couple of other options would be to install a CD-RW drive and then you could backup her data files to CD or add a second hard drive to her computer.

Either of these are fairly low cost options that add alot of flexibility to her system.

[OnDborder]

Originally posted by KeyboardCowboy
then just get rid of the partion afterwards?????


In my opinion, just leave it. I put the stuff on that I download off the internet( mp3's, programs, photos, etc..) and back-up data on the extra partition, so in case I have to reinstall I don't have to copy that data back on.

[Yodums]

Since I hear you have like 6 computers you'll probably have a spare HDD or a burner you can transfer for her to use temporary and just format the whole shabang.


A reinstall is never good :/ If you install Windows always go clean install.

Yodums