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Partitioning and My Hard Drive
Name: Ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 18:32:58 Pacific OS: Windows 98 CPU/Ram: 64mb Pentium 2
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OKay, I have a toshiba 4090 Laptop with 6 gigabytes. The harddrive is formatted. Somebody else installed 98 ages ago and partitioned the hard drive. Then I deleted those other partitioned drives (like I had drive d, e, f, g and I deleted them). How do I get the drives I deleted back and combine them into just one drive c?
Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 19:08:57 Pacific
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to give my laptop all 6GBYTES, what should I create? a Primary DOS partition, or the other one?
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Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 19:10:40 Pacific
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thanx for your help!!!!!!!!!! (ignore the last message, got the answer)
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Response Number 11
Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 19:30:27 Pacific
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when my setup.exe is loading for windows 98 installation this is what it say then it stops. 'Please wait while Setup initializes. Sanning system registery... Window'
What should I do?
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Response Number 12
Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 19:48:30 Pacific
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okay, it says windows setup required 7340032 bytes availible on my C: drive. How do I get that?
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Response Number 13
Name: homeflash Date: January 24, 2003 at 19:52:58 Pacific
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Did you fdisk/format your c drive yet? You should have enough space if you have done so
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Response Number 14
Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 19:56:13 Pacific
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when i try and type fdisk in the C:\ area it says 'Invalid media type reading drive C Abort, Retry, Fail?'. What should I do?
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Response Number 15
Name: homeflash Date: January 24, 2003 at 19:57:36 Pacific
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Sorry, my mistake...
Type in under d:>
your cd rom drive..
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Response Number 16
Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:01:24 Pacific
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. According to number 4 (display partition information) it says C: 1 Mbytes 6189. It also says 'Type: PRI DOS (primary dos I am guessing). 6189 is the size of my harddrive, what should I do next?
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Response Number 17
Name: homeflash Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:07:22 Pacific
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Delete all of the partition, primary or logical...
then create partition.
and leave as 1 partition..
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Response Number 18
Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:09:34 Pacific
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what do you mean, 'laeve as 1 partition'?
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Response Number 19
Name: homeflash Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:09:45 Pacific
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Delete them all first... that is what you want right?
then create partition, then reboot to win98 cd again.. then do setup from d:>
this time will work..
it may ask you to format the disk while doing set up, say yes or okay
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Response Number 20
Name: homeflash Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:11:55 Pacific
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my mistake.. my eyes are getting dizzy now...
I meant after you delete them.. you should create one partition...
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Response Number 21
Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:13:57 Pacific
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okay I have deleted all the primary drive. Do i now go to 1. Create DOS partition or Logical DOS drive?
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Response Number 22
Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:16:59 Pacific
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how do i create on partition. Can you give me a walkthru. Should I make the partition :
1. Create Primary DOS Partition 2. Create Extended DOS Partition 3. Create Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS Partition
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Response Number 23
Name: homeflash Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:17:04 Pacific
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just Dos partition...
You just want C:\ drive right... only one partition...
yes Primary partition... or they called it dos partition
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Response Number 24
Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:20:21 Pacific
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it says 'Do you wish to use the maximum availible size for a primary DOS partition and make the partition active (Y/N). Is it Yes?
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Response Number 25
Name: homeflash Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:20:22 Pacific
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Pick Primary Dos partition...
sorry about not having the menu in front of me, i would have guided you clearer.
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Response Number 26
Name: homeflash Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:22:17 Pacific
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Yes Maximize!! and make active!
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Response Number 27
Name: ander5rulz Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:23:58 Pacific
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it says, any drives you have created must be formatted AFTER you restart. HOW do I do That?
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Name: homeflash Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:29:05 Pacific
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