All the message says it that the hard drive is clean (no OS, no partition I
can surely say) and you will load your own OS on it.  So to answer your
question - it is already cleaned out for you, all you need to do, is to boot
from win98 CD and get the installation start.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon West" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 6:25 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] formatting a hard disk?


> Can anyone help me with my problem? i recently bought an 'oldish' computer
> from an auction just for my kids to use, so they don't keep breaking mine!
> Unfortunately when i turned it on all i got was the computer
specifications
> on screen then a message saying 'invalid system disk please remove and
press
> enter' but there's no disk in the floppy. it doesn't give me a command
prompt
> just a flashing cursor and everytime i press a key it repeats the message.
> Is there anyway i can wipe the disc and load a new system like MS WIN98?
>

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