This is a follow-up on my previous post.
I realised that there are many notebook manufacturers that have been
strong-armed to pre-installing M$ windows. Not only did they do that, they
also required the notebook manufacturer to provide some form of boot sector
protection to prevent the FAT partition from being deleted using M$ fdisk.
Which was what happened in my case. Lucky thing, someone (I forgot his
name) had told me to use linux fips and fdisk format the whole hard drive. I
have since forgotten altogether about any FAT partitions and the whole hard
disk belongs to Linux. :-)
Cheers,
Kenneth
>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
>
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