Thank you for everyone's help. Sorry, I have been on a long vacation with my family. I also recently found out that both of the cd drives were shot and did not work. I switched them out with one that...

I do understand what golden was saying. I haven't dealt with hardware much, but i was able to find the jumpers on the back of the hard drive and the cd drives. I've been really busy lately and so I...

Thank you very much for your help. I tried what you were saying and it doesn't seem to be working(of course, I am most likely not doing something right.) I will try it again. But there was one thing...

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When I typed in 'Format C:", DOS tells me
"Bad command or file name"
It really won't let me do much of anything.
Thank you for your help.
Nick

Thanks for the reply.
It does come up in DOS when I start it up. The computer has 2 cd drives on it. I have put the windows 98 cd in both drives and it doesn't do anything automatically.... I have...

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I do have a windows installation cd, but the problem is I don't think that either of the two cd drives are recognized by the computer. The only file on the hard...

Hi Everyone,
I am having a big problem with a computer i was just given that had windows 98 on it. When I turn the computer on, it starts to boot up, it checks for the:
Primary Master: Maxtor...