Re: Re-formatting a windows hard drive from linux to be a standard windows 98 disc
From: Thor (thor_at_valhalla.bbs.corn)
Date: 07/30/05
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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:20:43 +1200
Michael Hearne wrote:
> Peter Jones wrote:
>>
>> My problem is this:
>> I have a windows box that need to be formatted to be a standard windows
>> 98 disc. I cant dot his through windows, because it crashes before it
>> loads up. I know that I need to use "mkfs.msdos", but cant make head or
>> tail of the man page. I have googled my way a bit, but becuase this isnt
>> a common problem I cant work it out.
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>> Peter Jones
>
> Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/ and download a windows 98 boot floppy.
> Boot up with it and run fdisk to remove and reinstall the partitions the
> "Microsoft" way. Then "format c:" (no backslash).
>
> I have noticed a warning when using cfdisk that fat and fat32 partitions
> created with Linux partitioning tools may not be bootable.
>
> Michael
>
You might want to run fdisk /mbr
reboot then run fdisk again, delete all the partitions shown
reboot then use fdisk to create new partitions,
then format c: /u
-- *~~~~~~~~~~Thor
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