If you google win98 bootdisk there are a hundred sites where you can download one for free and copy it to a floppy. I saw a 3 pack of sandisk usb drives for sale at costco for $40 so I bought them and converted one to boot linux. That's an OS with some great formatting tools, if you want to get technical and possibly into unfamilar territory. But it gives you a ton of options and formats to deal with as compared to the 2-3 that MS support. In the realm of the more familiar, and fdisk /mbr plus a normal reformat or repartition as the situation demands should be enough to get you to the point where windows sees no previous OS. Best part: it's free with existing tools
Just have to sit though that long slow bootup via floppy
linux user since '98...
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