You need a boot floppy with FDISK.EXE and FORMAT.COM on it.  You can get a WIN ME 
boot disk from www.bootdisk.com if you need one.  Use the Win ME boot disk as it 
has the updated files.  It doesn't matter if it is for Win 98, SE or ME at this point. 
 You need to run FDISK to delete the non-DOS partitions, then set up a new partition 
before you exit.  When starting fdisk and it asks if you want to enable large disk 
support, say YES or you will be using FAT16 which limits the partition size to 2 
gig.  After you exit fdisk, reboot with the floppy and run format.com if you need 
to, as some install disks may not have the format option when installing Windows.

I have seen occasions when FDISK wouldn't completely clean off Linux, so in those 
cases, you either have to use the drive manufacturers maintenance/diagnostics utility 
to erase the drive or another utility to zero fill/erase the drive before you can 
use FDISK to set up a new partition and then FORMAT it. 







On Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 11:16 pm, Hans wrote:

>This should be on the Humor site. I recently erased everything off my computer HP 

>pavilion running W98 in order to install a full version of Linux (Ubuntu) When I 

>rerun the system disc to reinstall W98 the message says "does not recognise hard 

>disc"then "may have to use FDisc". Only Ubuntu will run now. Where do I go from 
here? 

> Any suggestions, along with laughter, will be appreciated. Thank you...................Hans. 

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