re: A 2-part question
Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jim Helwig
(43 messages posted)
Hi Bob, I didn't have time write back this morning, was on my way to work. I did
get the boot disk to work. However, I haven't done anything yet. I learned in my
early DOS days to proceed slowly, because DOS can be very unforgiving.
The info. I got from fdisk is as follows. Heading says "Current fixed disk drive
1" There are several headings beneath, which are Partition, Status, Type, Vol. label,
Mbytes, System, and Usage.
The info. beneath the headings is as follows: (Partition) C 1, (Status) A, (Type)
Primary DOS, (Volume label) PV10D0, (Mbytes) 14410, (System) FAT32, (Usage) 74% Beneath
this first line of info, there is a 2nd line of info, which is (same headings) (Part.)
2, (Status) - nothing entered, (Type) Ext. DOS, (Vol. label) - nothing entered, (Mbytes)
5130, (System) - nothing entered, (Usage) 26%
If I click Yes on a paragraph below indicating that I want to see the logical drive
info. the following appears: (Drive) D, (Volume label) - nothing entered, (Mbytes)
5130, (System) FAT32, (Usage) 100%
Total extended dos partition size is 5130 Mbytes.
I guess my question is - Is this what you expected to be displayed and do I continue
with the format?
On Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 11:39 am, bob wells wrote:
>Jim,
>
>Save the BootDisk.exe to the Desktop
>
>The Boot Disk is CREATED BY the file you downloaded. . With the New, formatted floppy
>in A:\, Open the .exe file on the Desktop to create the BootDisk on the Floppy
>
>The Fdisk.exe file will download to A:\.( different floppy) Open the .zip file to
>extraxt Fdisk.exe on the Floppy, then right drag the file "Fdisk.exe" to the desktop
>to COPY it.
>
>Reinsert the New BootDisk in A:\ and right drag/drop Fdisk.exe to A:\. Answer yes
>to overwrite prompt . Done
>
>Probably not necessary to change setup to A:\. If there is no CD in the drive, Windows
>will check A:\ next anyway, as long as HDD is last in boot order.
>
>The error message reflects that the BootDisk was not created on the floppy. As is,
>it's just another file.
>
>
>BW
>
>
>
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