re: Need help to create diagnositic partition Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 2:29 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by wheel (15 messages posted) Thanks for the response. I kind of figured I would have to start from scratch. I do have all the discs and floppies I need, thanks again.. On Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 6:02 am, Don wrote: >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: re: Need help to create diagnositic partition (Don: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 6:02 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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