Fdisk, Reformat Laptop HD

First off, where are you getting your image from? Are you using Ghost or other imaging sftware or are you loading from scratch. There are some great programs out there that come with 2 CAL's which is sufficiant enough to do what you need to get done.

Well, first i need to fdisk the drive, but i can't seem to find a boot disk w/fdisk on it. The only boot disk that i can find is a ghost boot. My lead wants me to wipe the drive and load from scratch.

Any "image" application is going to wipe the drive for you. Ghost is a perfect example. Just pull the image.

To use FDISK,you will need to create one from the current OS
Click-Start-Settings-Control Panel,double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon,select the tab Startup disk,insert floppy in A:\drive,then click button Create Disk

You can also download astartup from the following site www.bootdisk.com,using a Windows 98 disk will include the CD ROM drivers

Once you have the StartUp disk,load in floppy drive and boot computer,select option # 2,run setup without cd-rom support,at comand prompt,type in FDISK,when fdisk window open you can view the drive information,press ESC

Answer Yes to Enable large disk support

Select to delete Primary DOS partition,option #1
Press ESC,select to create primary dos partition
after you create the partition,reboot

Type format c:

After format is complete you can then load the operating system using the first option to run setup w/cd-rom support,you can also run setup from the command prompt by using
Sys c:

See the following site for reference
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q255/8/67 .asp

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