formatting Hard...Hard Drive

[thommo]

Hi,

I posted a previous thread.."help instaling OS" , now I find my problem is that I can't format my hard drive. I get into fdisk using a bootup disk from http://www.bootdisk.com however when I get into fdisk and attempt to setup partitions, (6.4 gig Quatum KA) I wish to have partitions larger than 2047 megs. However I am not able to make two partitions 2 gigs c: and a 4 gig d:. Insted I choose to see if I could setup the OS so i siple made the entire c: 6.4 gigs. Upon rebooting and attempting to install win 95 i get this dos message under c: :

"invalid medai type reading drive c
Abort/Fail......."

I somehow have to format and setup the partitions but how ????????
please help!!

thanking you in advance,
thommo

[U-96]

Go to this previous thread, I hope it will help you answer your problem, seems like most possibilities are covered...

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum2/HTML/001941.html

[Bob-NB]

The message you are getting is correct.

Your computer will boot to the c drive after fdisk, but the message will appear if you try to format c from c.

You must reboot the computer from the bootdisk that you got from www.bootdisk.com (http://www.bootdisk.com) then it will bring you to the a prompt.

At that point,(the a prompt) you will need to type "format c: /s /u " (without the quotes).

This will them format your c drive and install the system files on the c drive so that it will them be formatted and bootable.

Once acomplished, again boot from the bootdisk and install your OS (I assume here that the bootdisk has cd support to load your OS from the cd).

Good luck. Re-post and let us know how things are going.