Maybe not the right place to post but...

Hi,

Can someone please tell where in WinXP I need to go to create a boot disk....uggghhh no wonder I use WIN98SE


Regards,
FireDancer

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q305/5/95.asp&NoWebContent=1

Downloading is easier.

Regards,

Pieter

 

Hi Pieter,

I am having difficultys I need to wipe XP off the system and reinstall win98. But I have no cd's or boot disks and it was set up at a admin lvl is there any way to by pass this to get it to fdisk and format? Freinds cpu not to familiar with XP the system is to small for XP and causing to many problems.


Regards,
FireDancer

 

Hi FireDancer,

Personally I prefer the CD´s, but these come highly recommended: http://www.pcmedixwebs.com/ubd.htm

Regards,

Pieter

 

Pieter,

I got the disks made but it is wanting to set up XP it is not giving me what I need this what I get.


Format cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Format may run if the volume is dismounted first. ALL OPEN HANDELS TO THIS VLOUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like to force a dismount of this volume? Y/N I Typed Y and got this

Cannot lock the drive the volume is still in use.

Arrgghhh what do I need to do to reformat this pig!!!


Regards,
FireDancer

 

Hi FireDancer,

That´s the error you would normally get from trying to format from the command prompt.

You are giving the command from A:> , right?

Regards,

Pieter

 

yes hmm any ideas??

 

Hi FireDancer,

Have a look here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Q_20591573.html
Looks like the same problem.

Regards,

Pieter

 

Hi Pieter,

Thought I would post back and let you know I solved problem.. upon doing some reading I found that when useing XP if you had a previous OS on your computer you can go to add/rempve programs and uninstall XP and it will reload your old OS so therefor I now have a clean WIN98 up and running on my freinds puter thanks for all the suggestions. Oh and by the way I forgot just how slow dial up is still getting windows updates hahahah

Have a great weekend

Regards,
FireDancer

 

Good work there FireDancer