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Problems reformatting a NEC computer

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CedarTeeth135

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I just got back from a freinds house after trying to reformat his computer. He and his family knows nothing about computer.

The computer is an old NEC, 433 mhz, 64 mb ram, 8 gig harddrive. Everythin would go fine, until after I installed windows from the friggin "NEC Recovery Disk" everything seemed to be working, but right when Windows 98 should have started and showed the desktop, all I got was a blank screen and the sound of the monitor flicking on and off. While it actually wasn't going on and off, I could hear the monitor making sounds like it was changing resolutions or something. After I troubleshooted with the Recovery CD, I just decided to reinstall windows, again, nothing.

I plan to bring over my Windows 98 SE cd and install it on his computer. THis would get rid of most of the NEC packaged programs and such. Hopefully you guys can help me out.

THanx

Oh ya, upgrading his system or getting a new one is out of the question. I offered to build him one for 300 bucks, but it wouldn't go.
 
i'd reformat first off a win98 boot-up disk and then install clean 98...you should be good to go, and won't have all that NEC junk on the hard drive
 
actually i would fdisk, delete dos partition, create dos partition and format just to ensure the boot sector is in good shape and not virus infected
 
Wait, i'm not familiar with the NEC board setup.

What would entering safe mode require? Isn't it like holding down F8 during boot-up?

 
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