Lee Greathouse wrote:

>     Windows 95 won't get out of the way.
>      I have a standard, Windows 95 PC, with a 200 MHz MMX Pentium, 128
> MB RAM.  Several times I've done FDISK and formatted the single 3 GB
> hard drive, copying the system files to C:.  But when I boot up, I see
> "Starting Windows," the Windows splash screen, and other leftover
> garbage, even though I've done a full format and haven't installed any
> programs, including Windows 95.  It doesn't go to Windows, of course.
> Eventually I get a C: prompt.
>      How do I fully erase Windows so I can get a fresh start?  If the
> only way is a low-level format, I'll skip it.
>     -- Lee Greathouse
>
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Start your PC on a bootable system disk from the A drive.  You need to
copy format.com from your C drive to the bootable disk.  Once the system
has booted up on the A drive, type the command "format c: /u /v /s".  The
/u is an unconditional formay command and will not create a recovery file
based upon the files that were on  your C drive.  The /v command tells the
software to verify each sector that is being formatted.  Lastly, the /s
command places the system files, Command.com and the two hidden files,
onto the newly formatted C drive.

Good luck,

Don Veith

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