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If you replace all your memory... are you still you?
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OOH! I'm going to use this as an out-of-context quote for my next sig!
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Which really is quite too long at the moment.
If one stick of memory is bad, you just need to replace that one stick. Of course, if you only HAVE one stick of memory...
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I was getting tired of it anyway. I think I'll use this old quote from my gaming days.
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Er, shouldn't he try reinstalling Windows ON TOP of his current version before he tries a blank reinstall?
Reinstalling it on top with keep all your shortcuts, registry thingies, and everything. It's also less likely to solve the problem, but you really haven't got anything to lose.
Oh, and if you are using "Recovery Disks", make sure they don't format the hard drive or do something crazy first.
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quote:Oh, and if you are using "Recovery Disks", make sure they don't format the hard drive or do something crazy first.[/QB]
But formatting is FUN.
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I've used the recovery disks for a Gateway, HP, and IBM. All of them have first loaded a menu that has the options of diagnostics, restore to factory settings, or reinstall software.
Restore to factory settings is a complete reformat and reinstallation of all software that was originally on the system when you purchased it. Reinstall software lets you select what software you want to reinstall without reformatting. This is the setting that you'd use for reinstalling Windows.
This, of course, assumes that the recovery disks you have don't have a simpler menu (one with an option that says reinstall Windows). But I've yet to use any recovery disks that automatically launched a reformat without prompting the user for confirmation of erasing everything on the disk first.
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If you have a Windows CD (ie, one that says Windows 98 on it), then you can reinstall over the top of your current installation by booting up with a boot disk, and then typing:
D:\ (or whatever your CD drive is) setup.exe
That should do it. I think. Oh, I've forgotten how to make a Windows 98 DOS boot disk. Anyone?
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Can't you just go to the Run line and type "format a: /s"?
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Yes.
But you'd still need to manually copy Microsofts' generic CD-ROM drivers to the disk, AND modify the config.sys / autoexec.bat files yourself.
Unless, of course, you have a system that can boot from CD, in which case you don't have to bother with all this nonsense.
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Assuming that the CD is bootable.
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