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by srichardson

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I am trying to fdisk and Win2k hard drive. Can anyone tell me how to do this. I need to install Win98. I have gone to the command prompt and entered A:\fdisk but it does not read this command. What am I doing wrong. First time doing this.

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by pchlp

You should make another Win98 boot disk as this command should be on the disk. When it loads up you may have to select delete and non-dos partition.
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by dmiles

Insert the Windows 98 startup disk in A:/drive
Boot computer,at command prompt type "Fdisk" only,follow the onscreen prompts to delete the partition

You donot have to use the path A: in front of Fdisk

by thechas

If this is a duplicate, I applogize.

Answers 1 and 2 will get you started.

Make sure that you are using a Windows 98 startup disk.

Fdisk should tell you that the drive contains a non-DOS partition, and ask if you want to delete it.
Since the drive was on a W2K system, it likely was setup as a NTSF volume.
You need to delete the NTSF partition before you can setup a FAT32 partition for W98.

If you want some information and tutorial links, go to www.fdisk.com/fdisk

Chas

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