Win98 can create an emergency disk, bootable with CD-ROM drivers. Check the
Add/Remove software control panel applet.
The diskette will contain a copy of FDISK as well. You can
boot/repartition/re-install Win98 from this diskette.
HTH.
Chris Randall
Modnar Associates
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From: Karl Pfleger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, November 07, 1998 2:44 PM
Subject: re-installing Win98 on a freshly repartitioned machine
>The other thing the Dell sales rep told me is that Dell will not
prepartition
>the HDs on its machines, so I expect the machine I will order shortly will
>come with one 4GB Win98 partition.
>
>I realize there are tools for repartitioning without losing the data, but
>they either aren't guaranteed or cost money I think. So I just assume
>re-intall Win98 from scratch myself after repartitioning if I have no data
of
>my own to loser. It'll be good for the practice in case of a real HD
failure.
>
>This question is only peripherally Linux-related, but I've never quite
>understood how one is supposed to re-install Win95/98 from scratch on a
>completely wiped partition using the "for distribution only with new PCs"
>Win95/98 CDs. Some friends of mine who just bought an Apple G3 Powerbook
>repartitioned their drive to install MkLinux and they said the the
re-install
>of the MacOS took about 3 clicks. It was very easy.
>
>It has always seemed much harder in the MS-Windows world. Someone pointed
out
>to me that this is partially intentional to prevent pirating of MS-Windows,
>something which isn't really a big problem for Apple and its MacOS. And
that
>this is the reason for there being the special "only with new PCs" version.
>But clearly one has to be able to do this with the computer for which that
>copy of MS-Windows was purchased.
>
>The problem I always run into is how to either boot from the CD (which
most,
>or all?) PCs can't do, or how to boot from a floppy in such a way as to
>recognize the CD-ROM drive (or DVD-ROM acting as a CD-ROM). Can anyone tell
>me how easy this is to do, either in general or with an Inspiron (3200 with
>DVD-ROM)? What's the basic idea?
>
>The only time I've ever successfully done this was on a SCSI desktop
system,
>and I had to install MS-DOS 6.22 and then a DOS SCSI driver (from an old
>commercial SCSI package from Corel) in order to get access to the CD.
>
>-Karl
>
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