When FDISK starts (in a DOS window), you'll be asked if you want to enable large disk support. When the Run dialog box appears, enter FDISK into the Open box and click OK.Ģ. From within Windows, click the Start button and select Run. It isn't that hard really we'll start with the portioning process, which uses a DOS-based utility called FDISK. In Windows 98/Me, you have to partition and format your hard drive manually. Then click yes, after it finish you should be able to intall windows 98 s means it added a command prompt in the hard drive for futher uses. Then you delete the partition, the you create another parition after you are done restart the computer. Then You click yes to make it fat 32 if it is running windows 98, but for Xp just boot off the cd and format it through or fdisk it through the cd follow the instruction. Then you type Fdisk on the a prompt(example) Then after it is done you restart the computer and keep the start up disk in there. IF you insert a startup disk if you have one then you run Scandisk to check if you have any errors on your hard drive.

AFTER YOU DO THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO PARTITION YOUR DRIVE BEFORE LOADING A NEW PROGRAM. YES YOU CAN FORMAT YOUR COMPUTER, YOU HAVE TO RUN F DISK, THAT WILL ERASE YOUR HARD DRIVE AND PREPARE YOUR COMPUTER FOR A NEW PROGRAM. How do you format a computer that is running on windows 98 and windows xp ?.help me please. Related FAQ: FAQ Version 20 (modified 06/18/97)

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