re: Need help to create diagnositic partition
Monday, September 8, 2008 at 4:17 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Keith Stanier
(1655 messages posted)
wheel wrote:
|I have an older Compaq Armada 7330t laptop, 150 speed, 64 meg of ram, 6 gig hd,
|of which I am the original owner. I had to replace the original 2 gig hd, went bad.
|I'm using Win98 as the os, fresh install. This unit is only being used for basically
|one function and I like Win98. The problem is when I installed the new os, I didn't
|install, or even know, that I had to create room for the compaq diagnositics which
|apparently are installed in a small partition at the beginning of the hd. I have
I don't know why you need to create this small partition with a 6Gb drive there is
no point.
All you need is a bootable floppy Bootdisk
with Format.com, Fdisk.exe and suitable drivers for your CD Rom drive on it. Some
people say the WinME boot disk is better.
Then you need to check the boot sequnece in your BIOS so it boots up from the floppy
disk first. Insert the floppy and startup the computer. Once it reaches A:/ with
a CD inserted change to the CD drive D: and enter. If the prompt goes to D:
you can do a Dir to see all files on the root of the drive. This will make sure you
can access your CD Rom.
Go back to the floppy A: and enter then type Fdisk and follow all the instructions.
You need to remove all drives that are list then it will restart. Run Fdisk again
and set a new DOS primary partition. With that size drive you only need one, and
follow the instructions. After it restarts back to A: type Format C: and enter
and follow the instuctions.
Now because you are doing a fresh install of Win98SE you will need all additional
drivers for your hardware, sound card, graphics card, printer, scanner etc
Now the Win98SE CD is bootable so before you try to install go back the the BIOS
and set the boot sequence to read the CD Rom first. Restart the computer and follow
the instructions.
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