I purchased a new PC with OEM copy of Win XP already loaded on 40GB. I need to partition the HDD into 4 logicial drives. I cannot find/create a floppy with the appropriate autoexec,bat and config.sys. My old Win 98SE boot disks fail to find drive C:. I'm told that upon booting from a floppy that recoginzes drive c: and a CD-ROM dive that I can install a clean copy of XP and partition the HDD. Anybody b=have a copy of the appropriape config.sys and autoexec.bat files. I have all the MS OS's from DOS 3.0 to Win 2K Pro. Thanks Ed

Have you tried creating one in XP? Right click A drive, format / create MS dos start up disk. I am not sure what it creates (FDISK or CD drivers), I have never used it. Make sure you can access you CD drive with one disk or another before you format. My own boot disk is one I made myself ages ago. I’ll mail a zipped copy if you want.

u can use a 9x boot disk to fdisk & format then just boot from the cd & install

I made a MS-DOS boot disk in XP and it coild not find drive C:, the CD-ROMs, etc. both autoexec.bat and config.sys were blank. The MS-DOS boot disk is worthless. Try it. I was unable to find fdisk on the XP HDD. And I do not know which devices drivers are used to access HDDs, CD-ROMs, etc. in XP. I have learned that when you try to run WINNNT.exe or WINNT32.exe after loading XP does not work. I accept your offer to e-mail me a zip copy of a boot disk. embwayne@mindspring.com Thanks Ed

Can't use fdisk or format to knock down NTFS partitions. You need to use the utilities included with the Windows XP cd. Modify BIOS to boot from CD. Follow instructions to the point you can see list of partition. Modify as needed, reinstall. Good Luck!