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11-09-2003, 02:51 AM
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D,E, F, G,H,I,J when formating C
I want to format C to reinstall win98se
so what happens to all the files and apps on the other drives that have links to C
I have two HD's 40gig C,D,E and a 80gig F,G,H,I,J
Do I move everything to D except the windows folder, or just program files folder
well I guess I'm asking whats the least painful way to reinstall win98se
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11-09-2003, 03:15 AM
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If you reinstall windows, you have to reinstall all applications, whether they reside on D:, E:, C:,.....
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11-09-2003, 07:38 PM
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Re: D,E, F, G,H,I,J when formating C
Quote: Originally posted by Gait_Keeper
well I guess I'm asking whats the least painful way to reinstall win98se | The correct answer is to wipe everything out and start over. Whether you want to start over is a different issue.
Why are you reinstalling the OS?
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11-09-2003, 07:41 PM
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Re: Re: D,E, F, G,H,I,J when formating C
Quote: Originally posted by sechs
The correct answer is to wipe everything out and start over. | 
Why?!?!
If you reinstall the OS and format C:, nothing happens to the rest of your drives 
Soon as you reinstall you'll be able to see those drives (Assuming you don't accidentally repartition!!!!)
Its always a good idea to backup critical data though!
i should do that someday 
(as noted above, if you have apps/games installed to other drives, you'll have to reinstall!)
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11-09-2003, 08:11 PM
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Re: Re: D,E, F, G,H,I,J when formating C
Quote: Originally posted by sechs
Why are you reinstalling the OS? | It's W98se silly , time to "freshen things up"
Tooooo many bL00-sKrEENz 
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11-09-2003, 08:38 PM
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why?? when all is well ( nothings well with M$ )
1) I never reinstalled with two HD's ( I always just wiped the whole drive )
2) I read somewhere a while back, that the OS gets stale
3) I was bored
4) No blue sceens, I felt I was't normal
I have about 45gigs of stuff, 32gigs mp3's
i can leave those alone right?
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11-09-2003, 09:16 PM
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Honestly, if nothing is broke, don't fix it!
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11-10-2003, 05:44 PM
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Yeppers..... just make SURE you disconnect the 'other' drives (if you aren't sure) , and boot to a DOS disk & do a DIR to VERIFY that C: is indeed the drive yo want to bake.....
Once you're registry gets all ballooned up - it gets slooower....loading things that either don't exist or aren't needed .
I used to format about every 6-12 months when I ran W98 (gold/original NOT SE) -- I still don't miss those quirks !!
It freakin' AMAZES me to hear people say how 'stable' & 'rock solid' their W98,98SE,ME sytems are... I guess if you've never run NT , 2k or XP -- you have NOTHING to benchmark "stable" against...lol
"the OS gets stale".... 10-4!
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Last edited by sfw1960; 11-10-2003 at 05:46 PM.
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11-13-2003, 07:36 AM
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I can live with wiping both drives, except the mp3's
I own all of them, I've ben ripping my CD collection for back-up, and it's easier than getting up opening cases and putting a disk in 
so if I format all the drives except the one with the mp3's I should be alright?
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11-13-2003, 07:56 AM
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No need to format the other drives, however if you have installed software on the other drives (thats not default, default is c: ) you will need to reinstall those programs as well as the configuration files were stored on the main drive.
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