[Ham-Computers] RE: Windows98/SE Issue

[Maxwell, John]

Ok. Sorry for the confusion. I'll try again. The boot disk that I have
allows one to boot a laptop with a parallel-port CD drive and allows the
use of FDISK, FORMAT, and SETUP programs to install Win98/SE etc.

I have another Win98 boot diskette (with FORMAT.COM extracted) that will
allow you to load universal drivers for an internal CD-ROM drive and run
FDISK, FORMAT and SETUP to install Win98.

You mention that you wanted to get more than 2GB from your 5GB drive -
that comes from using FDISK.EXE from Windows98. It would, of course,
mean that you need to start over, but you would get what you are looking
for in terms of hard drive availability.

73,
   -John   W2JM

-----Original Message-----
Maxwell, John wrote:
> Kurt,
>    Sorry for the late reply, but the problem is that MS-DOS 6.22 had
> many limitations. Windows 3.x installed over top of MS-DOS and was not
> capable of re-partitioning, because it was not designed to do so.
>    Windows 98/SE can see more than 2 Gb, but I think that the problem
is
> that it is trying to use the old DOS partition that you had set up.
The
> version of Win98SE is an upgrade version, but in order to use the full
> partition, you will need to BOOT from the Win98SE disc. At this point
> you can then use the FDISK.EXE that came with it. If you have a
Windows
> 98SE boot diskette, you should be able to find FDISK.EXE on it and it
> will partition larger than 2Gb, though you may not find FORMAT.COM (it
> is tucked away in the cab file: "EBD.CAB" [I think that's the
filename,
> it's been a few years since I used this], use EXPAND.EXE to extract
> FORMAT.COM, if needed.) If you don't have a Win98/SE boot diskette,
let
> me know and I'll send an image of it to you and you can re-create it
on
> your end of the pipe. My image of Win98SE diskette has FORMAT.COM
> already extracted to eliminate the extra step when I have to work on
> friends' older laptops/desktops.
>    You mention that you'd rather not start over, but it may be in your
> best interest in order to gain the FAT32 file system and other
features.
> Don't worry about the upgrade without installing Win 3.x or 95
> beforehand, just insert one of the diskettes that came with Win 3.x
and
> it will see that you have a previous, 'legal' copy of Windows, even if
> the hard drive is freshly formatted!
>    Hope this helps, please let me know it I can help further
(presuming,
> of course, that I've helped thus far! :-) ).
>   
You can acquire boot disks here.

http://www.bootdisk.com/

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:55:56 -0700
From: "KD7JYK DM09" <kd7jyk at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] RE: Ham-Computers Digest, Vol 56, Issue
	10
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications,
or
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Don't need a boot disk...  I do need a solution to the problem I've been
asking about, however.

I'm going to try an install of Windows 95, full verison from floppy, it
should see the CD ROM when I put it in the floppy bay, that should allow
me
to upgrade from my Windows 98 SE CD.

(please note, at no point have I asked about Linux)

Kurt

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