need help

[old.Todd]

Hi i've got a windows 98 pc its a pentium and err i was wondering how do i format and once i've done it how do i setup my computer again? Do i just turn it on and stick the win 98 cd in and let that install? Please help

 

[old.Todd]

Any1?

 

[Ono]

Make a boot disk on a floppy first.

Dunno how. Just know what.

 

[old.TUG]

do a search for reformatting and installing windows 98 in some search engines.. should bring up pages like this:

http://home.pcspower.net/wmiller/installation.htm

 

[Testin da Cable]

I enjoyed the installation for two reasons. It's on-screen display information is very informative and you don't have to sit there and watch the whole time if you have other things to do. I believe you will enjoy watching the installation because it gives you so much information and you don't have to do anything.

the man is obviously quite mad

 

[old.TUG]

must bloody be to write a guide on how to install windows!

Mine starts:

1) Get tech savvy m8
2) Give him a PC
3) Say install windows for me
4) Come back in 2 hrs time to see how he's getting on

 

[stu]

or in Kryten's case, 12 minutes

 

[kryt]

oh for crying out loud would you fuck off and go to hell you twatted peice of shit, it's YOUR stunted knowledge that makes it impossible for you, it's YOUR fucking implausable sense of being right all the time that makes you unable to accept that you are fucking WRONG, comprende amigo? You're so fucking up yourself you won't ever ever admit to it, or will you admit to that? go on, dare you, out straight.

 

[kryt]

besides, i've already said, with an IMAGE CD I can do it in 6.

 

[Durzel]

Unless I'm mistaken, it would take about 5 minutes roughly to format any decently sized HD - IDE or SCSI (SCSI even longer) - which of course you would need to do beforehand, otherwise the image would fuck up.

This leaves about - say - 10 seconds give or take for inserting/removing the "image CD", another 5 seconds(ish) for the drive getting up to speed and slowing down at the end of the install..

By my reckoning that leaves roughly 45 seconds to install the O/S "image" in its entiriety, requiring (assuming the CD to be about 300Mb in size, although if it is a genuine image it could quite easily have additional software installed) a CDROM with a read speed of approximately 13.5Mb/sec (sustained) and a harddrive capable of likewise write speeds...

Interesting

 

[old.Luap2]

Originally posted by Durzel
Unless I'm mistaken, it would take about 5 minutes roughly to format any decently sized HD - IDE or SCSI (SCSI even longer) - which of course you would need to do beforehand, otherwise the image would fuck up.
Interesting

Your mistaken. Ghost, DI Pro etc don't format at all. They simply copy a sector by sector image of all the little ones and zeros. They could be Windoze files, software apps or your massive pr0n collection. It don't care. Nor do I.

 

[stu]

lol fucking hell it was a joke Nick. I'm starting to worry about you, you're going to have a coronary if you're not careful.

would it be appropriate to mention now that it would be "comprendez?"

or in fact that it would actually be "entiende", as comprender is French and not Spanish?



Can I double dare you?

 

[Perplex]

fucking lol. nick, calm down

 

[kryt]

right at last, thank you, that was all I ever asked.

besides, i've had a rough day made worse by the bad news.

apologies, getting too worked up recently, chill pill needed %l

 

[old.TUG]

Chill d00ds... me bets I can install Windows 98SE from CD ROM in 15 mins

nuff massif bad news tho