Re: messed up partition table reinstalling windows 98
- From: debiani386 <debiani386@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:58:27 -0600
j arwood wrote:
Hey Folks,Heres what i have done before and it worked, however i wasnt able to
This is kinda off topic, but I'm not really all that familiar with DOS's
fdisk or the mbr and thought someone her could lend a hand
I have a client whose Windows ME crashed, so I thought we'd try her on
Ubuntu. She's decided that she really doesn't want to screw with the
learning curve, and wants to reinstall 98SE (the only install disk she
has) then upgrade to XP (yeah I know, I know).
I booted up her system using the 98 floppy, ran fdisk and deleted the
non DOS partitions thinking that would get things rockin' for the 98
setup cd. NOT!
She has an 8 GB HDD and now fdisk is only showing 2 partitions:
Partition 1 as an Extended DOS partition 353 MB
Partition 2 as a Primary DOS partition 24 MB With a status of A (active
I'm assuming)
it Then goes on to say:
Total disk space is 8056 MB (which should be correct for a 8 GB drive)
The Extended DOS Partition contains Logical DOS Drives
when I display the logical drive info I get:
No logical drives defined
Total Extended DOS partition size is 353 MB
I then decided to try booting from an Ubuntu live cd to completely wipe
the drive and try again. When the CD tries to boot, I get a grub error 22.
Looks like there's some kind of bootloader (grub/mbr) issues at hand.
Anyone able to help me out to help this lady out?
delete some of the linux partitions (they were small partitions though,
so i didnt sacrifice much hard drive space).
First, in FDISK, i deleted the Extended DOS partition, but when i tried
that, it gave me an error stating that there was a logical drive, but
when i viewed the logical drive, i got the same response. So i got out
the boot floppy that came with my hard drive (it was a maxtor hdd..yah i
know i know, i didnt buy the hdd) and formatted it with there formatter.
It wipped most of the hard drive and added a FAT32.
If you would like, i could send you a copy of the floppy disk. It should
work on her hard drive, i tested it and ran it on other hard drives (my
other 2 ibm hdds)
--cj
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