Hard Drive FDISK problem

[Thmsshaun]

I am trying to setup a Hp omnibook laptop with 12Gb Hd. every time you load fdisk it asks if you would like to enable large disk support. i say yess creat new partition and set the partition active same way as I always have.

Then i resart and begin win 98 prior to Xp upgrade. On beginning setup it states HD must be formatted (As I would expect) But then it says there is a problem and setup must exit.

On running the boot disk with CD rom support to get the Dos prompt the C: drive is showing full. ?????

If I then type setup Scan disks checks the drive and finds a file taking up 16Mb I then delete this file and the drive is showing 16Mb free.

Please help this one has got me beaten

 

[High-Lo]

Shaun - After using FDISK to create the partition and set the partition active, did you format the disk using FAT prior to running the Win98 setup?

Steve

 

[Thmsshaun]

Donk know whats going on but seem to have resolved it.

Swapped Hdd from one lap[top to another ran fdisk on that computer and formatted from a floppy swapped back into the HP setup hard drive in the Bios and then ran setup.

So far so good....


The joy of computers :bannana: