formatting 98

Here is a link with full instructions

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=221829

and

http://www.cyberwalker.net/columns/jul99/290799.html

The easiest way is with the Boot Disk that you make or the one that comes with the CD.

You insert the floppy into the A: drive and boot up at the A: prompt type in FDISK and follow the prompts till you get to the program and chose Create a partition which on a blank HDD is 1 & 1 if you want to use all the HDD when it has finished the scan press enter again or enter a size. when this finishes if you want to create more partitions just follow th prompts and when you have finished reboot.

Leave the floppy in the Drive and when it again comes up to the A Prompt type in FORMAT C: or whatever letter drive it is that you wish to format and then press enter after it has finished formatting the drive you will be prompted to enter a name of the the drive/partition up to 11 letters and then just press enter after adding the name or enter with a blank field. Once that is done you have a formatted disk/partitions and on the reboot you will have a drive all formatted up and ready to use.

If you want to load one of the 9X onto that drive you'll need to leave the boot disk in and add the Install CD to the CD Drive and reboot that should start the setup running. If you are using a boot disk not supplied with the Install CD you need to switch the drive to the drive that the CD is in generally the D drive so you type in CD \X: where X is the letter of the CD ROM and then enter and you should be in the CD drive and then type in setup and the process should start running.

If you wish to check that you are in the correct drive you can type in dir/w and you will get a listing of all the contents of that drive.

Lets know how you get on.

Col

Another good site for acquiring bootdisks.

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

-Norm

Hi

Or.... you can quite simply boot from the Win98 startup floppy disk or the Win98 CD-ROM, close setup and at the prompt type:

format x:

where x is the letter of the drive you want to format.

That's it!

Good luck

To make things even simpler, if your CDROM supports booting, go ahead and pop your XP CD in, hit enter to boot, go to install windows, format your hard drive (I recommend you do a full format not quick) and your set. If not, you can make five floppy boot disks and go from there. There is no need to do format x: because you?re going to need to reformat it anyway to go to NTFS (which is much better than FAT32). You could stay with FAT32, but Windows XP breathes off of NTFS so that would be a better choice. Hope this helps.

Start your computer with Windows 98 CD. To make sure your computer boots with Windows 98 CD, go to CMOS settings & change the BOOT SEQUENCE order to CDROM. After successful booting from BOOT CD, locate the file FORMAT.COM. It should be in WIN98 folder on the CDROM. use FORMAT C: to format you C: Hard disk drive. Also make sure, first your HDD is partitioned using FDISK command. Format will work only after FDISK is done.

Boot to a win98 boot disk that has fdisk, and format on it.

Start fdisk and answer Y to the large partiton question.

Use fdisk to remove all partitions, dos and non dos.

Now create a dos partition. Reboot and format.

Lee

Beg, Borrow, or Download a Win98 boot disk.

You can download one from www.bootdisk.com.

This is easier if it is the only harddrive in the system.

Boot to the win98 floppy and at the a: prompt type

fdisk At some point you will see a page of information asking to enable large partitions. Answer Y for yes.

Now press enter. Remove all partitions dos and non-dos (ntfs) partitions.

Now create a new partition use maximum avaible space. When completed exit fdisk and reboot.

Leave the floppy in the drive.

Now at the a: prompt type

format c:

Now press enter and answer y or yes.

Put the win98 cd in the drive and reboot leaving the floppy in the drive.

At the a: prompt type

setup

Now press enter. You should be on your way to installing win98.

Lee

Answer # 8 is on the nose (did it last saturday) so rate the answers and award him the points !