At 05:03 PM 08/03/2001 -0600, Miark wrote:
>Dave,
>
Actually, steps 3 and 4 must come before 1. In order to remove ext2
partitions you must boot into some version of linux such as Tom's Root Boot
and use linux fdisk, not the windows fdisk.
Then boot using the win98 startup floppy, run fdisk /mbr, etc.
>1. Boot to your Win98 startup floppy disk.
>2. Then type: fdisk /mbr
> This will cause Win98 to boot as it used to.
>3. Then run the fdisk program with: fdisk
>4. Delete the partitions.
>5. Create FAT partitions in their place.
>6. Reboot to your Win98 startup disk again.
>7. This time do a: format x:
> where x represents the re-created FAT partition drive
>letter.
> This will make the partitions available to Win98.
>
>Miark
Michael
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