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HOW DO I PARTITION A HARDDRIVE II
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I answered your first point & I see you've another - wanting to restore original situation. I'm wondering if you've detailed your system properly. From your first post, I thought you had a drive with win98 on and a larger drive with nothing/unknown stuff on. You wanted to put win98 on larger drive.
As I said in earlier post, if nothing on large drive you need to create a partition (you ALWAYS have to do this to store data on the drive) & described how. If the drive already had a fat32 partition which used all space on it, you would just need to format this partition to prepare it for win98 (after backing up any data you want to keep from it). You can then copy your existing win98 isntallation from smaller to larger drive.
If you're having trouble with the larger drive (is it this one that Dos is saying is less than 1GB - where in Dos? - have you used fdisk?). In fact i'll stop there - you haven't said anything about what you've done - so please tell us & we can advise further.
As I said in earlier post, if nothing on large drive you need to create a partition (you ALWAYS have to do this to store data on the drive) & described how. If the drive already had a fat32 partition which used all space on it, you would just need to format this partition to prepare it for win98 (after backing up any data you want to keep from it). You can then copy your existing win98 isntallation from smaller to larger drive.
If you're having trouble with the larger drive (is it this one that Dos is saying is less than 1GB - where in Dos? - have you used fdisk?). In fact i'll stop there - you haven't said anything about what you've done - so please tell us & we can advise further.
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thatrenowned
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To set up a partition properly for use with Windows 98, do the following:
* Get a Windows 98 boot disk
* Put it in, switch on and select no CDROM support (quicker as you won't use the CD Drive yet)
* Once at the command prompt, make sure you're on the A drive and type fdisk
* Select Yes to both messages (one about large disk support, the other I can't remember)
* Delete all partitions
* Create a primary partition using all available space
* Exit FDisk and reboot
* Still with the boot disk in the drive, select boot up with CDROM support
* Once you're at the command prompt, type format c: and select Y to the warning
* After the format, install Windows (usually e:\setup.exe)
Regards
* Get a Windows 98 boot disk
* Put it in, switch on and select no CDROM support (quicker as you won't use the CD Drive yet)
* Once at the command prompt, make sure you're on the A drive and type fdisk
* Select Yes to both messages (one about large disk support, the other I can't remember)
* Delete all partitions
* Create a primary partition using all available space
* Exit FDisk and reboot
* Still with the boot disk in the drive, select boot up with CDROM support
* Once you're at the command prompt, type format c: and select Y to the warning
* After the format, install Windows (usually e:\setup.exe)
Regards
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