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the third edition is great for newbies, but it doesn't go that indepth. if you really want to get hardcore, get the specialized hacking exposed books like, for windows 2000 and linux. those tech you...

you really don't need to do f-disk or anything.
you have the windows 98 bootdisk right? just boot that little baby up with the boot disk, when it asks at the begining say, start with cd-rom support....