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Boot up using your boot disk. At the prompt type FDISK and press enter. When the prompt asks you if you wish to support large hard drives, choose yes. At the prompt, “create active partition”, press 1 and return. It will ask you a series of questions about creating a primary active partition. Basically, this means that it will organise the hard drive so that your windows system can be installed. After doing this process, quit FDISK and return to the prompt. Now type FORMAT C: and your new hard drive will be formatted. After formatting, you’ll need to restart, still with your boot disk in the floppy drive and the windows cd in the cd-rom drive. Switch to the cd-rom drive by typing D: and then type SETUP and allow windows to do its installation.
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Did Larry say he wanted to install Windows 95+ NO
From a MS-DOS Bootdisk. Start machine.
At the DOS promt type:
FORMAT A: (or FORMAT A: /s for System Transfer) press enter.Keep it simple!
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OK, Mr Invisible (not got the balls to reveal yourself!!!!!!)
Has your input, resolved Larry's problem?
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You both are confusing things. Caroline has a DOS man formating large drives and she does not reboot between FDISK and FORMAT which FDISK says to do whether you have to or not. And ______ said FORMAT A: /s when he meant A:\> FORMAT C: /s.
(DOS 6.22 back cannot access large drives so far as I know?)
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Better be careful Fred. You're explaining the steps given by two different people to one individual. The invisible anomaly might jump all over you. :)
lol
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Fred
LOL! - I certainly won't jump all over you! Many thanks for pointing out my typo. My brain knows what to do, but sometimes you forget to put an important part of the instructions in when converting to print!
Caroline
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You ladies and gentlemen are really funny! I don't mean this in a bad way. I just found this site and its quite interesting.
So for Larry's sake, can we agree that from a Bootdisk (that it be DOS 6.22 or Windows 95/98) he could type
FORMAT C: /S (transfer system files)
No need to FDISK, and no need to convert to FAT32. Because you're right again FRED6008 if this disk is to install DOS, it does not support large hard disk. It has to be on FAT
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so basically, when you format your C:\ drive, you have to have your boot disk and your Windows 98 handy (inside their respective drives)?
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