K, I have a win98, winME and Win2k set of boot disks.
THe hard drive in question is a 2 GB IBM drive.
The win98 boot disk, with fdisk on it, never prompts me with the question of weather or not i want to enable large disk support. It just loads right away to the option menu. So i create a new primary partition, tell it to use the largest size available. It ends up just being 504 mb's.... nothing more.
What am i doing wrong? Why can't I enable anything larger?
Wehn i try to format the 504 mb partition, it wont... it will say "are you sure you want to format losing all data blah blah" and i say yes, then it just freezes up, doesnt work.
weird.
BUT...
With the win2k boot disks, you can create and delete partitions inside and format from inside the win2k setup process. So id id that... it saw the 2 gig total capacity, I told it to delete the exisiting partition and create a new one, and format it with FAT32, not NTFS. Ita works, it creates a 2 gig partition, and formats it. Win2k starts to do it setup, and installs its files, then reboots. When the system reboots, it says "error reading disk"
what the hell is going on?
I thought maybe hte disk was bad, but the same damn thing happens when i use the other WD 10 gig hard drive i ahve here.
I cant boot off of the CD-ROM drive and there are no bios updates for htis machine
THe hard drive in question is a 2 GB IBM drive.
The win98 boot disk, with fdisk on it, never prompts me with the question of weather or not i want to enable large disk support. It just loads right away to the option menu. So i create a new primary partition, tell it to use the largest size available. It ends up just being 504 mb's.... nothing more.
What am i doing wrong? Why can't I enable anything larger?
Wehn i try to format the 504 mb partition, it wont... it will say "are you sure you want to format losing all data blah blah" and i say yes, then it just freezes up, doesnt work.
weird.
BUT...
With the win2k boot disks, you can create and delete partitions inside and format from inside the win2k setup process. So id id that... it saw the 2 gig total capacity, I told it to delete the exisiting partition and create a new one, and format it with FAT32, not NTFS. Ita works, it creates a 2 gig partition, and formats it. Win2k starts to do it setup, and installs its files, then reboots. When the system reboots, it says "error reading disk"
what the hell is going on?
I thought maybe hte disk was bad, but the same damn thing happens when i use the other WD 10 gig hard drive i ahve here.
I cant boot off of the CD-ROM drive and there are no bios updates for htis machine
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