I swear to god man.. I found out that if you want to reformat an XP machine, you need a windows 98 boot disk just to get into DOS without windows running.. Then you need to go to a windows 98 computer, copy a file called format.com from the windows directory and run that from a second disc in dos.

Which basically means, if you want to reformat an XP machine and you dont have a second computer with windows 98 installed and start up disk handy.............your fucked....

Man, when I had 98, all I had to do was go to start, shut down, it had the option right there to restart in dos, then all you had to do was type format c: .. and its all done.......no hassel... no nothing, simple as fuck.............

Why does XP have to be such an ass fuck when it comes to things as simple as reformatting........

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i just did mine, but it was called "re-image"

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poor nitrous oxide

get a mac, lol.[/salt in wound]

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Yo i would usually be all like, fuck that..........

But mac's are on fire right now..

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what the fuck is a mac

why the fuck does it say that i created this thread now?

nos, are you bored?

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i hate them........no wonder they call it WINDOWS!!

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I miss DOS.. I remember back in '95 or so when we had a pentium 90mhz... it was running like DOS 6.2 and Windows For Workgroups 3.11.. Before then, we had a 12mhz 286 with 640kb of ram.. windows wouldn't even run on it, so it was just DOS. Unlike windows, DOS is so simple, you'd have to do something really stupid like delete the wrong files to break it.

You don't actually need to have a Windows 98 disk to reformat the computer with XP. When you boot up with the XP install disk, there is an option to partition and format the disk. Don't remember the exact steps, but I remember doing it when I reinstalled XP pro on the laptop.

Don't know about XP, but I run Win2k on the desktop and it is pretty stable as long as you don't do stupid stuff to it like getting it infected with virii, ad/spyware. Before I rebooted last week after install microsoft patches, it was up for 43 days straight. without problems.

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