davidgraham16
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I have been advised in this forum to always use FDISK before formatting as it is safer to know which version of FDISK has been used. The explanation being that FDISK puts the FAT onto the disc and if the previous OS was win 95a (which it was) then this would be a FAT 16 which is not compatible with the FAT 32 required by more up-to-date systems like win98 SE (which I intend to put onto the win 95a machine)
My question is this - How do I locate the FDISK program which is on my computer?(my computer's OS is win98 first or original version). Once located, could you tell me how to transfer FDISK to a win98 bootup floppy that I intend to use to bootup a relatives PC that is currently running win95a. My intention, is to partition this machine using FDISK and then format it and install win98 SE. I would also appreciate some advice on how to use FDISK - my only previous attempt to use FDISK didn't get very far, a message just kept popping up saying "the disc is already partioned" it didn't seem to give me the option of deleting the current partition and putting a new one on, which is what I will want to do for reasons outlined above.
Thanks for any help
David
My question is this - How do I locate the FDISK program which is on my computer?(my computer's OS is win98 first or original version). Once located, could you tell me how to transfer FDISK to a win98 bootup floppy that I intend to use to bootup a relatives PC that is currently running win95a. My intention, is to partition this machine using FDISK and then format it and install win98 SE. I would also appreciate some advice on how to use FDISK - my only previous attempt to use FDISK didn't get very far, a message just kept popping up saying "the disc is already partioned" it didn't seem to give me the option of deleting the current partition and putting a new one on, which is what I will want to do for reasons outlined above.
Thanks for any help
David