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Non techie needs help
Trying to install Win 98 to a new hard drive on my laptop, (moving with the times !)
The boot disk loads the cd drivers ok, but when I try to run the setup from the cdrom, I'm told "drive c does not contain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition".
So I try to run "fdisk" from both a & c, but receive a "no fixed disks present" message. (but i can see other files extracted onto c:\ via dos)
Any ideas ?
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The boot disk loads the cd drivers ok, but when I try to run the setup from the cdrom, I'm told "drive c does not contain a valid FAT or FAT32 partition".
So I try to run "fdisk" from both a & c, but receive a "no fixed disks present" message. (but i can see other files extracted onto c:\ via dos)
Any ideas ?
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(V simple instructions please )
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when booting from a 9x CD i think it gives you a couple of drives.
c will probabily be the CD, but it could also be D
from c:\ type
dir fdisk*.* /s
this will give you the locations of fdisk on the cd.
then CD into the directory
and run fdisk
Create your partitions & reboot.
Then try formatting the partition (installer might do that for you)
and away you go
c will probabily be the CD, but it could also be D
from c:\ type
dir fdisk*.* /s
this will give you the locations of fdisk on the cd.
then CD into the directory
and run fdisk
Create your partitions & reboot.
Then try formatting the partition (installer might do that for you)
and away you go
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Does the disk appear in the BIOS ok?
If so might be worth trying a FDISK -mbr to clear the master boot record. Failing that use a Partition Magic Boot disk to clear any partitions.
If so might be worth trying a FDISK -mbr to clear the master boot record. Failing that use a Partition Magic Boot disk to clear any partitions.
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