I have just fitted a new hard drive into an old lavie nx laptop which had windows 98 on it, when i start the computer the following comes on the screen 'partition table does not exist save to disk feature is disabled run phdisk for info, create new partition' I can not copy onto floppy my new comp does not have one. Any suggestions on how i can partion my new drive?

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Check to see if your Windows 98 CD is bootable many are, and that your Laptop will boot from a CD.

What I have done a couple times is Format the drive first in another PC. Then put the drive back into the Laptop, and boot from the 98 install CD to run the setup. If your Laptop won't boot from a CD then this won't work,

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|[...]If your Laptop won't boot [to] a CD[,] then this won't work
| Steve

It seems unlikely that Steve's idea won't work on a floppy-less computer, but
if that *is* the case (and you're not into digging into the innards of your computer)
--or if the only bootable disk you have is a floppy, this one should do it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=How.to.make.a.bootable.flash-drive

It requires a blank thumbdrive, a bootable disk,
and a working computer that can handle that bootable disk.

It appears that if Steve's *bootable CD* notion isn't apt in your case,
then any way you slice it you will need a second (working) computer.

...and it sounds like "phdisk" is a proprietary utility in BIOS.
Have you tried typing
PHDISK    (Enter)

(I doubt it will gain you anything; I'm just curious now.)

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Well, as the saying doesn't go, "You learn something old every day."

I never heard of PHDISK so I looked it up and it's been around since Win95. You guessed more than half of it, Gewg when you said, "proprietary utility in BIOS". The rest is that "PH" is for Phoenix.

The references say it was to create and maintain a "hibernation partition" to store volatile data in the case of a crash caused by the battery running out of power.

• www.computerhope.com/jargon/p/phdisk.htm
• www.acersupport.com -- phdisk
• www.procyon.com/~pda/lphdisk"

/CREATE (/FILE or /PARTITION) creates the hibernation file or partition /DELETE (/FILE or /PARTITION) deletes the hibernation file or partition /INFO displays information on the hibernation file or partition /REFORMAT PARTITION reformats the existing hibernation file or partition

So I guess the next step is for Mark to use a search engine and find the manufacturer's site.

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Shoot, I thought He just misspelled, phormat, and phloppy.:)

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By connecting the hard drive to another PC, is there a way to make the HD boot to DOS with CD capability, you know, like using a startup disk?


On Saturday, March 22, 2008 at 8:31 am, Steve wrote:
>Check to see if your Windows 98 CD is bootable many are, and that your Laptop will
>boot from a CD.

What I have done a couple times is Format the drive first
>in another PC. Then put the drive back into the Laptop, and boot from the 98 install
>CD to run the setup. If your Laptop won't boot from a CD then this won't work,

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anu wrote:
|By connecting the hard drive to another PC,
|is there a way to make the HD boot to DOS with CD capability,
|you know, like using a startup disk?

Yes.
http://www.google.com/search?q=CONFIG.SYS+DOS.device.drivers

cache of http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

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