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mojo · Guest

i need to formate my c drive, but i don't have an XP bootable disk, only
non-bootable.

i have an original copy of win 98, but that won't instal because it won't
recognise ntfs file system.

can anyone help

John Thomas Smith · Guest

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:17:02 -0800, "mojo"
<mojo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

mojo · Guest

i have the cd-rom first in the boot order but still it does not boot.,

isn't there any other way i can format like in dos and the instal win98 or
Xp after formatin

"John Thomas Smith" wrote:

Jupiter Jones [MVP] · Guest

Power on with the Windows XP CD inserted.
Watch carefully, the message is only on for a few seconds and you must press
a key within that time to boot to CD.
"Press any key to boot to CD-ROM"

Double-check the boot order making sure CD is before hard drive.
Is the Windows XP CD original and not a copy?

Otherwise you have a problem that should be resolved before installation
continues.
Reseat CD IDE cable at both ends
Try another CD drive
Try other controller on motherboard.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/

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mojo · Guest

i just want to install win 98, but it won't recognise ntfs file system, just
help me solve this

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Michael Cecil · Guest

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:51:08 -0800, "mojo" <mojo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

Rodney Kelp · Guest

Just boot with a start-up floppy be it 95, 98 or ME and run fdisk to remove
the non-dos partition, create a new partition reboot and format it.

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Bob Harris · Guest

XP probably formated the disk as NTFS, which 98 can not understand.

Fundamentally, you need to delete the partition, then re-create it.

If there is nothing valueable on the hard drive, use FDISK run form a DOS
boot floppy to first delete all paritions, then create one or more with
FAT32 format.

If there is somehting valueable somewhere on the hardrive, say for example,
on a second partition, get something like Partition Magic which can convert
from NTFS back to FAT32, without data lose, and which can act on single
partition. Then, a standard boot floppy can re-fromat, thus earasing
everthing on the XP partition.

You can get several excellent boot floppy, and the latest FDISK (for large
drives, meaning larger than 32 Gig) from www.bootdisk.com.

However, bear in mind that 98 is getting fairly old, and may not support
super-large drives, such as those above 127 Gig. (The original XP did not,
so why should 98?) I also recall that 98 has a problem with more than 512
Meg of RAM, although I hink that MS has a fix. But, if the hardware is a
few years old, then 98 should work fine.

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Michael Stevens · Guest

mojo wrote:

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