How do I format my hard drive and reinstall Windows Me?

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This discussion focuses on formatting a hard drive and reinstalling Windows Me due to performance issues and corruption errors. Users recommend utilizing the Windows installer, which includes an option to format the hard drive during installation. However, there are significant concerns regarding the stability of Windows Me, with suggestions to consider upgrading to a more reliable operating system, such as Windows XP or a Linux distribution like Fedora. The conversation highlights common installation challenges, particularly with partition management when attempting to replace an existing OS.

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This discussion is beneficial for users experiencing issues with Windows Me, IT professionals involved in OS installations, and anyone considering transitioning to a more stable operating system like Windows XP or Linux.

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hi everyone,
I am having problems with my computer. It started beeing slow and then when I turned it on the other day an error message came up when loading windows that a file is corrupted and that I need to reinstall the windows Me.
Tried to install it and half way getting another error message regarding the hard drive and kept stopping and asking to restart the installation. Tried a couple of times and the same thing hapened. I am thinking to Format the hard drive(delete everything) and re install windows Me again.
Does anyone know how to format the driver? Or does anyone have any opinion as to what I should do?
thanks for your help.
 
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The Windows installer should give you an option to format the hard drive as part of the installation.

I also strongly recommend you use a version of Windows later than Me, because Me is extremely buggy.

- Warren
 
My opinion is that you should install linux. I have a computer that Windows 98 will crash on either during the install or a few minutes after the first boot up after an installation. It is an alleged hard drive problem (if it crashes during installation ) or an alleged video driver problem (if it crashes after bootup ). However I found a fabulously less expensive http://fedora.redhat.com system that, wonder of wonders, does not have these problems.
 
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thanks for your help
 
chroot said:
The Windows installer should give you an option to format the hard drive as part of the installation.

I also strongly recommend you use a version of Windows later than Me, because Me is extremely buggy.

- Warren

I came to the forum to ask a similar question so I'll just expand on this thread... when I use the XP disk to try to replace ME, it won't let me format the part that has the existing OS. I just can't do it. It tells me (when I try to delete that particular partition in the installation process) that that part of the hd has temporary files necessary to installation. How can I go about erasing everything and starting from a clean slate?

Thanks
 

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