"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:11:02 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:16:11 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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I have an eMachines T1120 the I want to use strictly for radio stuff -
somebody gave me the thing a couple of years ago and I just haven't
done anything with it.

I don't have any reboot disc or restart disc and what I basically want
to do it wipe the disc, reformat it to DOS, then install whatever I
want on top DOS.

Unfortunately, I can't do that. The only machine I have here in the
office has XP and XP won't allow me to format a disc with the system
so I can wipe this other disc and install DOS.

Anybody got a hint as to how to do it? Nothing I've found on the web
is helpful at all.
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www.bootdisk.com

Got it already.

But thanks...

Is there a 2nd hard disk in the machine you're working on?

Short story long.

I was given a eMachines T-1120 that had a ton of spyware, corrupted
files, yada, yada, yada. I want to wipe the drive, install a
partition for DOS and reinstall XP on a clean drive.

I want to put up a separate computer to do some navigation things,
support my amateur radio station with a newer computer (the old
computer is, believe it or not, a 486 that still runs) that runs all
my ARS software in DOS. The 486, while still good, can't handle
everything I want to do, so my thought was to put up this computer as
a replacement.

The idea was to just format the drive a couple of times (I think the
government standard is 7 times or something like that) to remove all
the crap, install DOS and reinstall XP.

The problem I ran into is that the reinstall disc for the T-1120 is
missing from the package - I can't get to the C drive to do what I
want to do and I've tried a bunch of ways. I don't have the resources
here and I was having some trouble finding what I needed on the web.

So at this point, I have a .exe file that gfretwell was kind enough to
send me that has the appropriate files on it so that I can boot from
floppy, format the drive a few times to get rid of the BS and then
reinstall with a fresh copy of XP.

Make sense?
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Yup-makes sense. I just asked whether there was a 2nd drive because there's
an interesting "gotcha" you could run into while formatting the C: drive. It
relates to which version of the FORMAT command you use. If the 2nd drive had
anything valuable on it, you might be drinking again shortly after going out
for a cigar, and coming back to see how things were going.

Hint: "Why should the format command go after the E: drive when I typed
'format c:'?" Why, indeed.