Go to the Website of the MFG  of  the Hard Drive. Check and see if they have 
a free program that will auto partition and format the hard drive. 

You  can use Nortons Gdisk.Exe to Auto wipe the hard drive and mbr, delete the 
hard drive partition[s], then auto partition and format, and set the partition active..
Download GDISK.EXE.

Next add GDISK.EXE to the Win98 Boot Floppy.
Open Notepad.exe then copy and paste the text below into it.
Make sure you double space. {example hit the enter key of the keyboard after each 
line.} NOTE: due to space I did not use double space in the text below.

....copy the text below..do not copy this line of text...


A:\GDISK 1 /DISKWIPE /Y
A:\GDISK 1 /MBR /WIPE /Y
A:\GDISK 1 /DEL /ALL /Y
A:\GDISK 1 /CRE /PRI /SZ:100P /FOR /Q /V:WIN98 /Y
A:\GDISK 1 /ACT /P:1

....end of copy and paste...do not copy this line of text...

Save the above notepad text to the Win98 Boot Floppy
Save as      GDISK.BAT 

Next right click on the autoexec.bat within the Win98 Boot Floopy  
then click EDIT, then scroll down and find: GOTO QUIT

then type in CALL GDISK.BAT  just below GOTO QUIT
Note it should look like this:
GOTO QUIT
CALL GDISK.BAT
Next close out the autoexec.bat and save the change.

Place the Win98 Boot Floppy {that contains Gdisk.exe & Gdisk.bat}  into the Floppy 
Drive, then boot the computer. When the menu appears choose "start with Cd-rom support". 
The whole process could that two or three hours. The time limit depends on the size 
of the Hard Drive.
When Gdisk Finishes and goes back to the A:\ Prompt 
place the Win98 Install Cd into the Cd-rom Drive
Next go back to the A:\ prompt and type in
E:\ then hit enter
at the E:\ prompt type in
E:\win98\setup.exe /ie /im /is /v /nr 
Then tap the Keyboard Enter Key
{if E:\ is not the cd-rom drive letter type in the correct Cd-rom drive letter instead 
of E:\}
: make sure you remove the Win98 Boot Floppy before you reboot the computer. If not, 
you will restart the whole auto process again...delete wipe, create etc.: you can 
remove the gdisk.exe, gdisk.bat  and re-edit the autoexec.bat if you want to return 
the Win98 Boot Floppy to its usual state:
I've never had any problems using NORTON GDISK EXE, however,  if 
you use any of the information above you must agree that you are using it at your 
own risk.


 





On Saturday, April 15, 2006 at 9:19 am, Ken wrote:

>Hope u solved your problem I can't get started at all now. I decided to reformat 

>my harddrive but have had loads of problems. In the end I fdisked and reformatted. 

>Now my machine appears to be completely knackered. I cannot load up 98 at all. I 

>get as far as formatted complete 14,638.69MB total disk space. Total available 14,638.69MB 

>All seems ok up to this point. No problems reported. I then reboot with CD support 

>and insert 98. At the A:\> prompt I type setup. Scandisk hits in automatically.It 

>reports,Problem Found, 63,961,664 bytes of data on drive C (I have tried two harddrives 

>and it reports the same for both) that might be one or more lost files or directories 

>but which is probably just taking up space. I have tried to save and fix, delete,dont 

>fix, however whichever I do I cannot get to installing 98. It reports drive c had 

>errors but were fixed. It seems no matter what I try I cannot get to installing 
98. 

>Any ideas other than bin it ?

>

>
 

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