I need some help with dos, installing Win 98

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I am dual booting Win98 and Win2k.
I am using a 60 Gig Maxtor Hard Drive.
I put in a Win98 boot disk and and typed C:format C:
all went well and it formatted as it should then when it was done I restarted with the Win98 boot disk again and at the command prompt I put C:fdisk and then I enabled large disk support then deleted the existing partition of 57255 MB
Then I created a primary dos partition of 10001 MB and set it to active then created an extended dos partition of 47254 and then I looked at the partition information and it said drive c active 10001 unknown and drive d 47254 unknown so pressed esc to exit and it said that these partitions will need to be formatted so I rebooted with the boot disk again and started with cd-rom support and then typed C:format c:
and it said, Invalid media type reading drive C: ABORT, RETRY, FAIL.
So I typed D:format d: and it says the same thing, what does this mean?
This is my only problem, I have installed Windows 98 many times before.
Why wont it let me access my partitions?
Thank you.

 

[AndyHui]

Make sure that you have created a logical partition inside your extended partition.

Boot up from the Win98 boot disk, then type

format c:

That's it. Don't put anything in front of format.

 

[cleverhandle]

What Andy is implying is that the first "c" in "c:format c:" implies that the format program is living on your hard drive - which it doesn't, because you just wiped it out.