I have a logical drive on extended partition. my primary partition contain nothing, but full of bad sectors. Can I install windows 98 on Extended partition and boot from there. When I installed windows 98 on extended partition and made extended partition active using fdisk, it is not booting. Please help to overcome the problem

You can only boot from primary partitions. Why don’t u use fdisk to repartition your hard disk? Also try to run scandisk.

1. Use Ranish Partition manager (freeware) to hide your existing primary partition. 2. Delete your logical and extended partition 3. Use fdisk to create a primary partition in place of the deleted extended partition. 4. Install Windows. Your original primary will be hidden so no problems. To learn about RPM visit my website (follow Homepage link) and look up Ranish Partition Manager. It is all there where to get it, how to create the floppy and how to use it. ___________________________________________ ☺ When everything else fails, read the instructions.

"my primary partition contain nothing, but full of bad sectors." If that's really true, you should probably consider purchasing a new hard drive. I suggest booting from a floppy and run: scandisk c: /surface If there are dozens of bad sectors, replace the drive.

I agree with warren. What I suggested can only be a short term thing. The hard drive will eventually fail altogether and you will lose your data. ___________________________________________ ☺ When everything else fails, read the instructions.