re: Need help to create diagnositic partition Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 6:02 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Don (246 messages posted) The Compaq disgnostic partition sort of follows the IBM model. Boot from a floppy. Go into FDISK. delete all partitions on the drive. Remove the boot floppy and insert the first Compaq diagnostics disk. It should offer to create the disgnostics partition. Let it do so and follow prompts. If it does not, boot with boot floppy, FDISK create a 2mb primary and format it. After diags partition is created, boot w/ floppy, FDISK, create a DOS primary for rest of drive and make it active. Now you can install your o/s. Warning: don't do any of this if you don't have a boot floppy or the media to install your o/s. Also, be aware you will lose everything on the drive when you create the diags partition. Don Written in response to: Need help to create diagnositic partition (wheel: Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 7:33 am) Responses to this message: re: Need help to create diagnositic partition (wheel: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 2:29 pm) re: Need help to create diagnositic partition (wheel: Friday, September 12, 2008 at 8:31 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Need help to create diagnositic partition (wheel: Sun, Sep 7, 2008, 7:33 am) re: Need help to create diagnositic partition (Keith Stanier: Mon, Sep 8, 2008, 4:17 am) re: Need help to create diagnositic partition (Don: Wed, Sep 10, 2008, 6:02 am) re: Need help to create diagnositic partition (wheel: Wed, Sep 10, 2008, 2:29 pm) re: Need help to create diagnositic partition (wheel: Fri, Sep 12, 2008, 8:31 pm) re: Need help to create diagnositic partition (Don: Sat, Sep 13, 2008, 4:56 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum