Partitioning/FDISK not working.
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Daniel Dub
(14 messages posted)
I've done this many times, I even just read a tutorial making sure I'm doing everything
correctly, I am, and I have been.
My friend brought me a laptop recently asking to install Windows 98 on it because
when he started the laptop it says "No operating system found" or something along
those lines.
So I enter a 98 start up disk and typed FDISK. There are no partitions so I create
a primary, use 60% of the disk space, created the secondary used 40% (the rest) and
set primary to active, escaped out, then it says "MUST restart, must format AFTER
restart"... So I restart the computer.
Now usually I format c:/s now but it says something like "format is not compatible
with drive C" (not exactly, I forgot what it said)
Then I went into FDISK to check the partition status and it says "no partitions"...
so it basically "resets" or "Doesn't save" the partitions I JUST made before restarting
the laptop. (I've only done this on desktops, but I doubt it would be different for
a laptop)
I've partitioned the drive about 3 times with split drives, then I tried it using
only a primary drive with 100% space available, yet every time I restart the computer
the partitions DON'T SAVE. I even exited out of FDISK and instead of restarting I
immediately entered FDISK and they were gone again. I appreciate any help anyone
has to offer, thanks in advanced.
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