~Help with hard drive problem!?

[vedder]

I just bought a hard drive and installed it and booted up my computer and ran win setup but this error came up "If you have HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive, You will need to create MS-DOS boot partition to set up windows" I have no clue what to do about this? I tried making a partition(not that I really konw how) and I said theres not enough room to install winodws. The drive is a Western Digital 13 gig

[AuraEdge]

NTFS and NPFS's are used for other OS's (NTFS is for WinNT and the other one im not sure)
You must partition before you install windows
if your HDD came with a disk, use that.
If not, try fdisk (which might be one some boot disks)

Btw you want to make a FAT32 Partition, also known as an exteneded MS-DOS partition (which Win9x can read)

[This message has been edited by AuraEdge (edited 12-11-1999).]

[Pantion]

NTFS= NT File System it is used by Windows NT

HPFS= High Performance File System is used by OS/2

Seems like the HDD is formated in one of those formats. You can't create a partition because the one already in your drive most be using all of the avaible space. You need to use fdisk or any other partition program to remove such partition or partitions and create a new one, or more if you like, and format them in FAT16 or FAT32 so you can install windows.

Just one reminder FAT16 can be read by win9x and FAT32 can only be read by Win95 OSR 2.x and Win98-Win98SE.