I need DOS hint!!

[Decklord]

Hit all,

I need to make a new patition to my disk in DOS but I don't know how. Can you help me?

[drizzle]

Use the FDISK utility. If your primary partition takes up all of the hard drive then you will first need to decrease the size of the primary partition to make room for the second one. Partition Magic 4.0 from PowerQuest is perfect for doing this. It can resize a partition without destroying the data on it.

http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/index.html

[This message has been edited by drizzle (edited 07-30-99).]

[This message has been edited by drizzle (edited 07-30-99).]

[Decklord]

I just hit FDISK in DOS and thats it? Or I have to get a rpogram?

[drizzle]

at the DOS prompt type FDISK and press <ENTER>. You will first need FDISK to create an extended DOS partition. It will then allow you to create a logical DOS drive within this partition. There really isn't much to it.

How big is your hard drive and how big is the partition that is currently on the drive?

[Decklord]

The disk is a 6,4 GB and the problem is that Windows does'nt want to install with the exiting partition.

[Decklord]

He's telling me that "It is impossible to create a temporary file. If you have HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive you must create a starting MS-DOS partition to install Windows"

[Underclocked]

Decklord, do you have another friend that is versed in setting up a PC? You are going to be in big trouble very soon without someone to lead you through this. FDISK is simply pick the right choices and allow the program to do the work. You must first delete the active partitions on the drive and then make new active partition(s).
Have you tried typing C:\dir to see what is on that drive. If there is a WinXX directory, type in C:\WinXX\setup and hit enter. Also, before destroying what is on there, see if there might be a D drive using the same method.

[AuraEdge]

I had the same problem
The problem is if u wanna install Win95 or 98 to a harddrive thats all in fat32 partitions without any windows9x operating system installed, windows 9x will refuse to see any harddrive, as will anything else.
I had to reformat my 5.6 into 3 FAT partitions and then insatll windows and convert the two non windows directories to FAT32. (im keeping the windows partition FAT incase this ever happens again)

[drizzle]

What file system is on the drive? FAT? FAT32? NTFS? What version of Windows is it? 95? 95b (osr2)? 98? NT?

What errors if any are you getting when you try to install Windows? The better you answer these questions the easier it is to get a solution

[800XL]

I've never had such problems. Just delete any existing partition, keeping in mind that this will completely wipe all the data off the drive, and create a new partition. If you are dealing with the early release version of Win95, you must create a FAT16 partition, otherwise go with FAT32. Then format the drive. If the drive is not formatted, win9x setup cannot copy temporary files to it, even though a partition exists.

To create FAT16 vs FAT32, answer no when asked if you want to enable large disk support when fdisk starts. Answering yes will make FAT32 partitions when you create new partitions in fdisk. Once you have the partition created, reboot with your bootdisk again, and 'format c: /s'. Run setup for windows and it should fly.

A good rule of thumb, is to always use a boot disk from the version of Windows you are going to install. That way, you don't have problems with partition types the installed OS can't understand.

[BBA]

I'm with 800 on that, except any system boot disk with the fdisk and format commands on it will be all you need! If you want to fdisk to large disk support (fat32) you have to use the Win95'b' or Win98 systems disk.

You can even use DOS 6.2 and up system to remove a fat32 or NTFS/HPFS partition, just by selecting the 'non-dos' partition selection.

Aura, Win9x has no problem installing on a pure fat32 drive, unless its Win95 'a', which does not support fat32.

[Decklord]

It worked!!

I was using the version "a" of windows 95 and he was not able to work with the partition done on the comp. I used a Windows 98 boot disk and it worked. Thank you guys!!!