Hi ,can anyone help with this ?
Attempting to format a Packard Bell Easynote laptop hard drive as its owner insists on using ME instead of the XP it came with (it is about 2 years old).Booting to a bootable version of 98SE startup CD I tried to change from NTFS to Fat32 by deleting the existing primary partition (NTFS) and creating a new primary partition (FAT32).However after going allthrough the mechanics of drive verification etc Fdisk then tells me that the harddrive is READ ONLY and it is unable to make the changes.When I reboot sure enough the primary partition is still NTFS in flavour.
On top of this the laptop won’t rcognise valid 98SE and ME installation discs as bootable although it is OK with startup and boot CDs.
Help
John