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Old 08-25-2003, 12:33 AM   #16
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Did you create a windoze boot disk? www.bootdisk.com That should be all you need, plop it in the floppy, boot it up, and follow the above instructions.

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Old 08-25-2003, 11:39 AM   #17
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huh

I was already using a windows 98 boot disk but I suppose it can't hurt to make a new one.
 
Old 08-25-2003, 11:47 AM   #18
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Mornin! With the win98 boot disk, you should be able to boot up the a:\ prompt, at which point you'd type:
fdisk
And be taken into the fdisk program on the floppy. You should then be able to remove/create all partitions necessary for your purpose, after which you'll need to format them (after you exit fdisk and restart, boot back with the floppy):
format C:
And if you made more than 1:
format D:
and so on..

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Old 08-25-2003, 12:07 PM   #19
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Yay OK

Hey Thanks I think I got it, its formating now, what I did was make a MS DoS boot then put fdisk on another disk, after dos booted up I switch the disk and ran fdisk to make a Dos partition, now it allowing me to format my C:.
 
Old 08-25-2003, 12:12 PM   #20
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Glad to see you got it working

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Old 08-25-2003, 12:13 PM   #21
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mmhmm

Yeah, one day I'll have to sit down and take an extensive course in Linux, and mess with it when I am more wiser, Anyway thanks for the help!
 
  


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