Partitioning, Formatting and Reinstalling in Windows 98

Written by Ashish Jain


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To format your PC and reinstall windows 98 you need to dorepparttar following:

1. Make sure that you haverepparttar 107421 start up disk that came along with your operating system CD. You can also make a start up disk by going torepparttar 107422 Control Panel> Add/Remove Programs> Create Start up Disk, click onrepparttar 107423 button and insert a floppy in your floppy drive. 2. Ejectrepparttar 107424 floppy disk afterrepparttar 107425 start up disk has been created. 3. Turn off your computer. 4. Insertrepparttar 107426 start up disk in your floppy drive. 5. Restart your computer. 6. Instead of booting fromrepparttar 107427 hard disk, your computer will now boot fromrepparttar 107428 floppy and a menu will appear. 7. Fromrepparttar 107429 menu select "Start without CD-ROM support." 8. Afterrepparttar 107430 files are loaded and you are returned torepparttar 107431 prompt "A:/" type FDISK 9. The FDISK tool is loaded and allows you to deleterepparttar 107432 existing DOS partition. 10. Chooserepparttar 107433 file system you want to use. 11. Deleterepparttar 107434 existing DOS partition by followingrepparttar 107435 prompts on screen. (Option 3)) 12. After you have deletedrepparttar 107436 partition pressrepparttar 107437 'Esc' key to return torepparttar 107438 main menu. 13. Now you need to create a new DOS partition. 14. Type in FDISK again and go throughrepparttar 107439 various steps to create a new DOS primary partition (Option 1)). Assign it allrepparttar 107440 space available (100%). 15. Exit FDISK and reboot system. 16. Now you need to format your drive, so type in FORMAT Driveletter: (where Driveletter isrepparttar 107441 letter of your hard disk, C: by default) 17. Afterrepparttar 107442 format switch over to your CD ROM, by typing inrepparttar 107443 drive letter forrepparttar 107444 CD ROM drive (D: by default) and type in setup.exe to beginrepparttar 107445 installation of windows 98.

Creating extended and logical DOS partitions

Follow steps 1 to 14

Now in order to create other extended and logical DOS partitions make sure that you have not assigned allrepparttar 107446 space torepparttar 107447 primary partition. Decide beforehand how much space you want to allocate torepparttar 107448 primary partition.

14.1.Instead of exiting FDISK, re enterrepparttar 107449 FDISK options menu and selectrepparttar 107450 option to create Extended DOS partition (Option 1)) and assign itrepparttar 107451 rest ofrepparttar 107452 space that is still unallocated and followrepparttar 107453 various prompts on screen to createrepparttar 107454 extended partition. 14.2 Again re enterrepparttar 107455 FDISK menu. This time selectrepparttar 107456 option to create logical DOS partitions and assign space to it. 14.3 Followrepparttar 107457 above step in order to create more logical drives.

Follow step 15 and 16 16.1 Format all your other drives by usingrepparttar 107458 format command i.e. FORMAT Driveletter:

Follow step 17 in order to in install windows 98.

Deleting existing extended partitions and creating new ones

If you are not happy withrepparttar 107459 way your hard disk is currently partitioned you can also deleterepparttar 107460 existing partitions and create new ones.

Follow steps 1 to 11

11.1 Instead of exiting, re enterrepparttar 107461 menu and deleterepparttar 107462 rest ofrepparttar 107463 partitions (Option 3).

Follow steps 12 to 17

Ashish Jain M6.Net http://www.m6.net


Protect Your System From the Internet Evils

Written by Daniel Punch


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Next up isrepparttar Spyware and ad blocking software that wasrepparttar 107420 initial concern. The two major software packages for spyware protection and removal are Spybot- Search and Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html) and AdAware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/) although there are alternatives including a recent Microsoft release. (http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx). These threats are often not dealt with by Internet security packs (strangely enough) although some protection is now starting to be included.

Chances are you will have picked up an ad blocker somewhere inrepparttar 107421 collection of programs by now, but just in case you can make your Internet browsing experience a less commercial affair by downloading software such as Hitware Lite (http://www.rightutilities.com/products/hitwarelite/hitware_lite.htm) or Stoprepparttar 107422 Popup (http://www.stopthepopup.com/). These programs stop ads before they reach you, leaving you to browse onlyrepparttar 107423 information you're after.

Besides installing protection software your best bet is just to be careful with your surfing. Don't open weird emails with strange attachments if you don't knowrepparttar 107424 origins (don't even openrepparttar 107425 email... oftenrepparttar 107426 viruses and Trojans will have an auto open script written intorepparttar 107427 email itself, so you've instantly opened up your computer by simply looking atrepparttar 107428 email). Be careful aboutrepparttar 107429 sites you visit. Make sure that you're well protected before enteringrepparttar 107430 Internet 'grey' areas, such as ROM, Warez, Appz etc. sites. If you perform a web search and some ofrepparttar 107431 sites that show up have descriptions and titles consisting only of keywords, it's usually a fair bet that you should stay clear of that site. It usually won't have anything useful to offer and may contain hazardous material. With a bit of care you can keep your system going strong and enjoyrepparttar 107432 Internet safely and relatively ad free.

Daniel Punch M6.Net http://www.m6.net Daniel Punch is a paranoid computer user with more protective software than can possibly be healthy.


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