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03-21-2002, 12:14 PM

Can someone PLEASE tell me exactly what the hell to do to get XP off of my laptop? It came with ME and I am selling it today, but wanna sell it in it's original OS, so I need to get XP off of it. I have tried fdisk: bad command, format c: bad command

I have spent the last 5 hours trying to remove this damn deadly ass virus....... does ANYONE have any ideas? I know this has been discussed but I can't find it........

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03-21-2002, 12:14 PM

format c:
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03-21-2002, 12:15 PM

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03-21-2002, 12:16 PM

well, you could boot off a Win98 CD and run fdisk from there, or you could boot off the WinXP CD and remove the partitions form there as well and format it then.

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03-21-2002, 12:17 PM

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haha beat ya, didn't I ?
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03-21-2002, 12:17 PM

Use the following 5 step plan of action

(1) Remove Hard-drive from Laptop
(2) Smah Hard-drive with hammer
(3) Throw remaining hard-drive peices in river.
(4) Buy new HD
(5) Install new HD in laptop

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03-21-2002, 12:17 PM

ok sorry about this........ boy, my head is going to explode...

Know where I can land a win98 boot disk? I have downloaded 4 and none of them work, it says the disk is wrong, remove it and hit any key

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03-21-2002, 12:22 PM

Win98 CD and run fdisk ...that's the ticket

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03-21-2002, 12:22 PM

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haha beat ya, didn't I ?

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03-21-2002, 12:25 PM

so far I have managed to completely wipe off all my setup files on drive d: THAT was easy enough........ and I removed the partitions, don't ask me how, but XP is still fucking there........ I swear I think I can hear it laughing it's ass off at me screaming "nice try bitch, try it again"

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03-21-2002, 12:25 PM

Everybody should own a copy of the Ultimate Boot Disk available here. It's free. There's nothing better, unless you make your own.

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03-21-2002, 01:02 PM

Ok my dear watson, I got that file........ followed the directions and it isn't giving me the wrong disk, replace the damn thing and hit any key anymore........ it just sits there with a cursor and won't let me do anything............ Now what Brainstormer? LMAO

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03-21-2002, 01:04 PM

Tam

REFORMAT C:

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03-21-2002, 01:06 PM

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REFORMAT C:

greentea, go choke your chicken if you can find it.......

I have now downloaded and tried to run like 6 win98 boot disks, so far nothing has worked.

I swear I loved XP until today!!!!!

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03-21-2002, 01:19 PM

Sounds like you need to do a low level format. If you have any of the free utilities for your disk this should be easy enough. You can find them as free downloads on the net from the manufacturer's site. Several people recommend Drive Shuttle and PowerQuest utilities but I only go there after the free utilities provided by the manufacturer fail.

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Western Digital

Anyway, that's what I would do.

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03-21-2002, 05:18 PM

NOTHING....... absolutely nothing I get will let me format this fucking pc........ I swear I have never had this much hell in my life. I am sooo not pc illiterate but boy this is messing with me something horrible. I have read everything and tried everything I can try.

Anyone else have any braistorm ideas?

This is a Compaq 1200 series laptop, came with WinME but I put XP on it........... now I just want to make it back to the way it was when I bought it for this guy to buy it.

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03-21-2002, 05:22 PM

hmm fdisk/mbr is gonna get rid of the WinXP boot menu - isn't there an uninstall option when you boot the WinXP CD ? Or is that just repair ?
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03-21-2002, 05:50 PM

I have a choice of repair, upgrade or clean install and that's it, tried that too.

Up until I started doing the webmaster thing I used to format and crash a computer just to be doing it. I am famous for hitting that "red button" to see what it will do....... so I would crash the shit to be doing it. So I am not a total nut when it comes to a pc, and I have literally tried everything I know to try at this point. I found an fdisk program and ran that, thinking I could just bring it all back up with my WinME disk............. however, when I rebooted, there was XP again...........

IT WILL NOT GO AWAY!!!!!!

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03-21-2002, 05:56 PM

what you could do is to bot off a ME/98 CD, fdisk/mbr to get rid of the WinXP boot menu (if there is any) and then delete the darn WinXP folder - then install ME/ OS of choice
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03-21-2002, 06:02 PM

Just some ideas, have not done more than played with XP, but as you seem at a loss:

delete command.com

disconnect internal battery on mother board so your BIOS is erased

go into system registry delete everything in there

delete config.* and autoexec.*

follow pr0's suggestion (which would mean problem fixed by now)
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03-21-2002, 06:02 PM

actually I have not tried that...... what's the worst it can do? Crash?

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03-21-2002, 06:03 PM

Originally posted by Tam
actually I have not tried that...... what's the worst it can do? Crash?

LMAO

Pretty much what I was thinking.
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03-21-2002, 06:52 PM

Tam:

Usually, laps come with a recovery CD, this disk will erase anything on the hd and return the thing to all factory settings. You either have that disk, or you can get it from a compaq vendor.

look around your old CD's and see if you can find it.

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if this fails as well...

use a hammer.

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03-21-2002, 06:56 PM

Or:

do you happen to own a win 98/ME CD?

go to your bios setup, find the part of it where it says booting sequence, (or similar) it should have a list of the drives. move your page up key until your CD drive is the first one of the list.

insert your win 98/ME CD and reboot.

the cd will boot the puter just as a boot disk, and it will give you the options to install.

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03-21-2002, 06:56 PM

E-van....... tried that as well............ LOL

I guess I am either missing something or this thing is whipping my ass one. lol

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03-21-2002, 06:58 PM

Originally posted by Tam
ok sorry about this........ boy, my head is going to explode...

Know where I can land a win98 boot disk? I have downloaded 4 and none of them work, it says the disk is wrong, remove it and hit any key

How'd you actually find the any key? ;)
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03-21-2002, 07:11 PM

If you have the ME install disk,

boot into DOS

Type Format C /SYS or something similar. Look up the right command so that it will leave your system files, then boot of the 98/ME disk or whatever and do a fresh install.

If you converted to NTFS when you installed XP, that is why you can't just "uninstall" and return to the previous version.

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03-21-2002, 07:21 PM

Put the format, fdisk, del etc commands on a floppy and run it from there. See if that works.

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03-21-2002, 09:49 PM

FOUND THE PROBLEM......... Dolleyes helped me, she is now my hero........... woohoo........

She sent me a win98 boot disk, on all the ones I had downloaded there were hidden files that were not being copied to the disks........ so she made me one and sent it.

XP IS HISTORY............. I no longer need that "any" key..... you want it kimmy? ;)

HOWEVER, FUCKING Compaq, they told me my OS, ME, was on this restore disk they gave me with it..... well guess what? It is as I had told them, it is not the operating system but the damn actual RESTORE disk........................ NOW I have to go on the hunt for tech support to get a damn OS from their asses. GOD what a damn day!!

Thanks guys..... at LEAST XP is gone........ good grief I thought I was going to have that thing on there for life.

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03-22-2002, 05:06 AM

Originally posted by Tam
FOUND THE PROBLEM......... Dolleyes helped me, she is now my hero........... woohoo........

She sent me a win98 boot disk, on all the ones I had downloaded there were hidden files that were not being copied to the disks........ so she made me one and sent it.

XP IS HISTORY............. I no longer need that "any" key..... you want it kimmy? ;)

HOWEVER, FUCKING Compaq, they told me my OS, ME, was on this restore disk they gave me with it..... well guess what? It is as I had told them, it is not the operating system but the damn actual RESTORE disk........................ NOW I have to go on the hunt for tech support to get a damn OS from their asses. GOD what a damn day!!

Thanks guys..... at LEAST XP is gone........ good grief I thought I was going to have that thing on there for life.

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03-22-2002, 04:22 PM

I have 98, 98SE, ME.. Let me know..

Hell I even have 3.11 and Windows/386
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03-22-2002, 07:25 PM

Congrats Tam, and if you need it, I have the following installs here:

DOS 5.0
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and a couple Apple II data disks
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