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

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The user is experiencing significant issues with their computer, including slow performance and a corrupted file error when loading Windows Me. Attempts to reinstall Windows Me have failed due to hard drive errors and repeated installation interruptions. The user is considering formatting the hard drive to delete all data and reinstall Windows Me. It is noted that the Windows installer typically provides an option to format the hard drive during installation. Additionally, there are strong recommendations to upgrade to a more stable version of Windows, as Windows Me is known for its bugs. Another user suggests considering a Linux distribution, like Fedora, as a more reliable alternative. There are also challenges mentioned regarding formatting the hard drive when trying to install Windows XP over Windows Me, specifically issues with temporary files preventing the deletion of the existing OS partition.
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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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