If it will boot from the CD then the CD should allow you to specify partitions - FAT32, or NTFS if NTFS then turn off indexing - who needs to know what text is inside the exe's dlls' etc. and that sure can take up disk space
JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Poer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:17 PM Subject: Re: Look into Setup of laptop > Ok, but this laptop has no floppy drive. Will the CD ROM drive do the job if > I copy the bootdisk to it? > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Slattery, Tim - BLS > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Look into Setup of laptop > > > > So, now I am going to buy a new hard drive and I don't have > > the original software that came with this laptop, but I do > > have a licensed version of Windows98SE that will do. What do > > I need to do to the hard drive after I install it in order to > > install the new OS? Anything in particular. A suggested > > website for help although I much prefer the experts here. > > If you don't have a bootdisk, go to www.bootdisk.com and get one. That > should include FDISK and CD drivers. > > Boot from that once your new disk is installed, and run FDISK to create > at least one partition on your disk. Once you finish that, you'll boot > again and your new partition will appear as drive C:. Now you can put > the Win98SE CD in the drive and run setup.exe from that to install the > OS. > > > -- > Tim Slattery > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles > Page? > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
