I GOT AN OLDE COMPUTER MADE FOR WIN95. easy to change to a second-hand hard drive to get rid of prob

[shotgun_boogie79901]

sony vaio desktop 32 megs 3.8 gigs or so.
i can't find an eraser that the damn thing will run (its not connected
to the internet and has no winzip) so i can start over with a bare disk
and run win nt 4.0 (which i happen to have).
i thought maybe i could find an old hard drive with a good os or just
completely blank.

 

[Guest]

Sorry, but this is a Windows XP newsgroup.

You might try a Windows 98 boot disk - and use the format or fdisk commands
to erase the hard drive.

- John

 

[Bob I]

Go here have at it.
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: <[email protected]>

| sony vaio desktop 32 megs 3.8 gigs or so.
| i can't find an eraser that the damn thing will run (its not connected
| to the internet and has no winzip) so i can start over with a bare disk
| and run win nt 4.0 (which i happen to have).
| i thought maybe i could find an old hard drive with a good os or just
| completely blank.

It's junk. It's not capable of running XP and it is a lousy platform.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

sony vaio desktop 32 megs 3.8 gigs or so.
i can't find an eraser that the damn thing will run (its not connected
to the internet and has no winzip) so i can start over with a bare disk
and run win nt 4.0 (which i happen to have).
i thought maybe i could find an old hard drive with a good os or just
completely blank.

Simply boot from the WinNT installation CD. You'll be offered the
opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the
installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot
devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.)


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[neil]

Suggest you try a win95 group, a PC with a spec designed for win95 wont run
XP.

Neil

 

[Stevo]

Updating an OS on a computer that was mde for an OS older than the on
being updated to can cause many problems. I would advise you to dro
th whole idea and buy a new computer...supposedly you can get ne
"older" computers at places like amazon or eba

Stev

 

[David R. Norton MVP Shell/User]

sony vaio desktop 32 megs 3.8 gigs or so.
i can't find an eraser that the damn thing will run (its not connected
to the internet and has no winzip) so i can start over with a bare disk
and run win nt 4.0 (which i happen to have).
i thought maybe i could find an old hard drive with a good os or just
completely blank.

Some NT 4.0 CDs are bootable if I recall correctly, you can boot onto the CD
and tell it to delete everything and create new partitons during setup.