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Name: oooShawnooo Date: December 31, 2001 at 13:55:57 Pacific
Comment:
Hi i was wondering why is it when i boot my pc which as win xp pro on it and i put the 98 boot up disc in and i start with no cd rom support and i type in fdisk it doesn't work nothing happen what could be causing this thanks.
Name: dr oneill Date: December 31, 2001 at 16:45:23 Pacific
Reply:
Hello Shawn:
Why are you using a boot 98 boot disk?
If you want to format the drive or create partitions in XP, go to the command prompt (Start>Run>Cmd) and use Diskpart, which is the equivalent of FDISK in XP.
Happy New Year!
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Response Number 2
Name: Vic Date: December 31, 2001 at 17:28:29 Pacific
Reply:
Go into bios and Set it to boot from A:
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Response Number 3
Name: oooshawnooo Date: December 31, 2001 at 19:02:04 Pacific
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