"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

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:16:11 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"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.
--

www.bootdisk.com

Got it already.

But thanks...

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

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:11:02 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:16:11 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

"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.
--

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.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

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.


First off XP does not use the DOS system - it uses something called
NFTS.

You need to wipe and reload the OS - you can get a copy of the
necessary files from bootdisk.com that will fire up the floppy drive
and let you go thru thru the steps of reformatting - you just need to
do some reading on NFTS.

Also, make sure that you have the drivers for your computer - floppy,
CD ROMs, Sound card, etc.

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.


If you want/need to have both dos and XP - partitiona the C drives and
load 2 different OS's - one section for XP nd NFTS and omne part for
DOS and Windows 2000.

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.


That's what the boot floppy disc is for it opens up to an A:\ promt -
you type CD C:\ to change to the C drive - then you type FDISK and
start the whole time-consuming process of removing your OS and
reinstalling.

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.

Most likely the *.exe file is a bunct of DOS *.bat files that brings
you to a dos command prompt. That's your startup disc - you also need
your OS CD and your drivers.

Jim

"Kernix" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

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.


First off XP does not use the DOS system - it uses something called
NFTS.

You need to wipe and reload the OS - you can get a copy of the
necessary files from bootdisk.com that will fire up the floppy drive
and let you go thru thru the steps of reformatting - you just need to
do some reading on NFTS.

I haven't done this in a while, but doesn't a full version of the XP CD
offer the option of erasing the entire HD, in much the same way as if you'd
done it via the format command?

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
I haven't done this in a while, but doesn't a full version of the XP CD
offer the option of erasing the entire HD, in much the same way as if you'd
done it via the format command?

Not sure - but I would assume so - I would imagine that the ditching of
DOS was for a reason and that all the hype about XP was for a reason.

All I know is when I loaded XP my programs ran reaaaaally slow and I
had to remove it and reinstall ME. I need a new computer.

Yes... the XP install disk has software to allow you to partition your drive
and then install XP on the partition you select. It also allows you to
format the partion(s) in NTFS or the older FAT systems.

You could then go back and install another OS (like DOS) on any of the other
available partitions.

-W



"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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"Kernix" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

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.


First off XP does not use the DOS system - it uses something called
NFTS.

You need to wipe and reload the OS - you can get a copy of the
necessary files from bootdisk.com that will fire up the floppy drive
and let you go thru thru the steps of reformatting - you just need to
do some reading on NFTS.

I haven't done this in a while, but doesn't a full version of the XP CD
offer the option of erasing the entire HD, in much the same way as if
you'd
done it via the format command?