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"Delete everything and reinstall from scratch - how?"

Just rescued an old PC from the attic. It had lots of spyware on at one time, then must have been infected with a virus, it can boot up and start then is frozen with an illegal operation or something mmtask or missing rundll I dunno. Tried to reinstall windows these missing files or corrupted files stopped me at the end of setup.

Just tried looking for a website to wipe everything and install fresh, cant seem to find one. I tried it before on another computer but I can't remember how to do it. Does anyone know or could direct me to the information I need. Thank you

Yeah but, like you said, it's a company license copy.

Nearly all home edition/proffesional edition CD's that I have used boot straight from the CD OK.

gamesfreak wrote:
> Nope
>
> You just go into the BIOS, change the 1st boot device to CDROM, then
> shove the CD in and restart.

On some cds you may have to. I use a company copy of WinXP that doesn't boot from cd (the person who copied it only copied the file. It's legal before you all start. ;) ) and so have to create a six boot disks.

Well, with xp it's 6 bootdisks all in all............

Nope

You just go into the BIOS, change the 1st boot device to CDROM, then shove the CD in and restart.

Wont he have to make a boot disk?

Oh yeah, forgot about this. I'm now so used to the XP setup with its own fdisk and format.

Its worthwhile using fdisk to remove the primary partition, then reiunstall it. This removes all files from the machine and gives you a fresh start.

Go into bios (Press delete when computer loads up) and change the order of boot devices so that the cd loads up first. Put the Win 98 cd in, restart the comp and when it loads back it should detect the cd. Press a key to boot from the cd. Let everything load, select install using Win 98 CD, let it load some more. Once it's got to the dos (Should see C:\), type D:\ and enter. It should change from C to D. Now type in setup.exe and press enter. Hopefully, if my memory serves me correctly it should now copy files and load Win 98 and crap.

Windows ME but it's upgrade, but have Win98 full

What operating system are you trying to install?

Just rescued an old PC from the attic. It had lots of spyware on at one time, then must have been infected with a virus, it can boot up and start then is frozen with an illegal operation or something mmtask or missing rundll I dunno. Tried to reinstall windows these missing files or corrupted files stopped me at the end of setup.

Just tried looking for a website to wipe everything and install fresh, cant seem to find one. I tried it before on another computer but I can't remember how to do it. Does anyone know or could direct me to the information I need. Thank you