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08-25-2003, 12:33 AM
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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
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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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08-25-2003, 11:39 AM
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Registered: Jan 2003
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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.
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08-25-2003, 11:47 AM
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Registered: Mar 2002
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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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08-25-2003, 12:07 PM
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Registered: Jan 2003
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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:.
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08-25-2003, 12:12 PM
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Registered: Mar 2002
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Glad to see you got it working
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08-25-2003, 12:13 PM
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Registered: Jan 2003
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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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