I've never seen that instance of the Microsoft virus, save when it came on a Micron PC my mother bought. We immediately formatted and replaced it with Windows 2000.
I know that in Windows 98, you can go to Add/Remove Programs and select the "Startup Disk" tab, which will allow you to create a boot disk. It should have FDISK, FORMAT, et cetera on it already, and it SHOULD contain real-mode drivers for your CD-ROM. Test the thing before you start wiping data off the drive.
If you want to just reinstall WinME or 98 then there's no need to run FDISK, unless you WANT to repartition the drive. If you are replacing WinME with Linux or even Win2k, go ahead and wipe the partition table.
If ME won't let you make a boot disk (which cannot be ruled out), then it shouldn't be hard to find someone with a copy of Win98, whose disk should work just as well. Me, I use my Linux recovery disks, or a DOS 6.2 disk if I need to mess with older systems (pre-FAT32, obviously). :-D |
