I just got myself a new notebook which comes pre-installed with Windows 98.
The harddisk came as a 3.2GB partition. I want to break this into 2
partitions and reformat the partitions. On the first partition, I want to
install Windows 95 (occupying 500 mb) and Redhat Linux 5.0 (occupying the
rest :-) ). I can be considered quite conversant with DOS commands, but the
following response from the notebook got me really stumped.
(1) First, I booted up with a Win95 floppy, and ran the Win95 version of
FDISK.
(2) I partitioned the stuff, and exited from FDISK.
I obtained a message saying that the fixed disk is write-protected.
(3) I tried to FORMAT the whole c: drive and the message obtained is the
same.
What's wrong? I am quite new to Windows 98, so can anyone tell me whether
Windows 98 does have some kind of protection mechanism on the fixed disk it
resides? If so, how to bypass it? Or is it a notebook hardware thing?
Though I have never come across this, I hope it is not some M$ gimmick
again.
Kenneth Hwang
