| FDISK
: The Built In Partitioning Tool
You should first create the Fat32EBD
diskette from the Win98 CD-Rom. It is located in the Tools\MtsUtil\Fat32EBD
folder which also contains the Fat32EBD.txt file with instructions
for making the diskette (click here
to go to my FAT32EBD page for additional info). A Win98 StartUp diskette
can be supplemented for the Fat32EBD diskette as well, just take note
of the location of the FDISK and FORMAT files - they are different using
that diskette.
NOTE
Microsoft has identified an issue when you use FDISK.EXE to partition
a hard drive that is larger than 64 GB (64 gigabytes, or 68,719,476,736
bytes) in size. It seems that the original Win98 and Win98 SE versions
of Fdisk reports the correct size minus 64 GB. You can read more about
this bug and download a patch with an updated version of FDISK.EXE in
this MS
Knowledge Base article. The patch is meant to be applied after
Win98 is installed but this is of little help if you are doing a clean
install with a hard driver bigger than 64 GB. Here's how to replace the
FAT32EBD's FDISK.EXE with the updated version in those cases.
- Download the update linked in the above MS Knowledge Base article
but DO NOT double click on it or execute it in any way.
- Assuming you have something like WinZip already installed, right click
on the downloaded file and select "Open with WinZip" or similar
from the pop-up menu.
- A listing of all the files compressed into the downloaded .exe should
appear. Locate and extract the appropriate FDISK.98 file for the version
of Win98 you are running ONLY.
Date Time Size File name Operating System
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05/19/00 10:30am 64,428 Fdisk.98g Windows 98
05/18/00 8:35am 64,460 Fdisk.98s Windows 98 Second Edition
- Rename the FDISK.98 file to FDISK.EXE and copy it to your FAT32EBD
diskette - over writing the original one.
You should remember to download and apply this patch once Win98 is installed
to update the FDISK.EXE file in the Windows\Command folder as well.
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Boot with your W98 Fat32ebd diskette, type FDISK at the A:\>
prompt, and follow these instructions.
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The
first screen you'll see is this.......
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Your
computer has a disk larger than 512 MB. This version of
Windows includes improved support for large disks, resulting in
more efficient use of disk space on large drives, and allowing
disks over 2 GB to be formatted as a single drive.
IMPORTANT: If you enable large disk support and create any new
drives on this disk, you will not be able to access the new
drive(s) using other operating systems, including some versions of
Windows 95 and Windows NT, as well as earlier versions of Windows
and MS-DOS. In addition, disk utilities that were not designed
explicitly for the FAT32 file system will not be able to work with
this disk. If you need to access this disk with other operating
systems or older disk utilities, do not enable large drive support.
Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N)...........? [Y]
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Select "Y" if you wish to partition using the FAT32 file system
or "N" if you want to use the FAT16 file system.
----> Take note that the following instructions are for systems with
only one hard drive present. The same info applies as long as you are
sure that you have changed the Current Fixed Disk using the # 5. option
(NOT SHOWN HERE) and select the appropriate physical hard drive in question
before moving on to step 4. The next screen is this..........
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FDISK
Options Current fixed disk drive: 1
Choose one of the following:
1. Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive
2. Set active partition
3. Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive
4. Display partition information
Enter choice: [1]
Press ESC to exit FDISK
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Press 3 to choose Delete Partition Or Logical DOS Drive, and then press
ENTER. The Delete DOS Partition Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
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Delete
DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Choose one of the following:
1. Delete Primary DOS Partition
2. Delete Extended DOS Partition
3. Delete Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS Partition
4. Delete Non-DOS Partition
Enter choice: [ ]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
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If any of your partitions were created with a third-party disk-partitioning
utility or installation program, press 4 to choose Delete Non-DOS Partition,
and then press ENTER. If all your partitions were created with MS-DOS,
press ESC to return to the FDISK Options screen, then skip to step 10
of this procedure.
If you chose option 4, the Delete Non-DOS Partition screen appears.
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Delete
Non-DOS Partition
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRI DOS 23 FAT16 33%
2 Non-DOS 23 33%
3 EXT DOS 23 33%
Total disk space is 69 Mbytes (1 Mbyte=1048576 bytes)
WARNING! Data in the deleted Non-DOS Partition will be lost.
What non-DOS partition do you want to delete..? [1]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
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Type the number of the partition you want to delete, and then press ENTER.
To confirm the deletion, press Y, and then press ENTER.
Press ESC to return to the FDISK Options screen.
Repeat steps 4 - 8 if you have any other partitions that were created
with a third-party disk-partitioning utility or installation program.
The FDISK Options menu should now be on your screen. If you have a partition
that was created with MS-DOS, press 3 to choose Delete Partition Or Logical
DOS Drive and press ENTER.
If you chose option 3 on the FDISK Options screen, the Delete DOS Partition
Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
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If you have a logical drive, press 3 to choose Delete Logical DOS Drive(s)
In The Extended DOS Partition and press ENTER. Then the Delete Logical
DOS Drive(s) In The Extended DOS Partition screen appears. If you don't
have any logical drives, skip to step 19.
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Delete
Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS Partition
Drv Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
D: 15 FAT12 65%
E: 8 FAT12 35%
Total Extended DOS Partition size is 23 Mbytes (1 MByte=1048576
bytes)
WARNING! Data in a deleted Logical DOS Drive will be lost.
What drive do you want to delete.........................? [ ]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
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Type the letter of the drive you want to delete and press ENTER.
Type the volume label if there is one and press ENTER.
To confirm the deletion, press Y and press ENTER.
If there are other logical drives you want to delete, repeat steps 12
- 14 above.
When all logical drives have been deleted, press ESC. An information screen
appears.
Press ESC again to return to the FDISK Options screen.
Press 3 to choose Delete Partition Or Logical DOS Drive and press ENTER.
The Delete DOS Partition Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
Press 2 to choose Delete Extended DOS Partition and press ENTER. The Delete
Extended DOS Partition screen appears. If you don't have any extended
DOS partitions, skip to step 21.
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Delete
Extended DOS Partition
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRI DOS 23 FAT16 33%
2 EXT DOS 23 33%
Total disk space is 69 Mbytes (1 Mbyte=1048576 bytes)
WARNING! Data in the deleted Extended DOS Partition will be lost.
Do you wish to continue (Y/N)........................? [N]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
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To confirm that you want to delete the extended DOS partition, press
Y and press ENTER.
Press ESC to return to the FDISK Options screen.
Press 3 to choose Delete Partition Or Logical DOS Drive and press ENTER.
The Delete DOS Partition Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
Press 1 to choose Delete Primary DOS Partition and press ENTER. The Delete
Primary DOS Partition screen appears.
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Delete
Primary DOS Partition
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage
C: 1 A PRI DOS 23 FAT16 33%
Total disk space is 69 Mbytes (1 Mbyte=1048576 bytes)
WARNING! Data in the deleted Primary DOS Partition will be lost.
What primary partition do you want to delete..? [1]
Enter volume label...............................? [ ]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
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Press ENTER to delete your primary partition.
Type the volume label, if there is one, and press ENTER.
To confirm the deletion, press Y and press ENTER.
Press ESC to return to the FDISK Options screen.
----> Note that in Win9x it is necessary to reboot after deletion of
partitions in order for the changes to take effect. Please reboot before
moving on to step 28. Answer as you wish to the question in Steps 2 &
3 and return to Step 28.
Press ENTER to choose Create A DOS Partition Or Logical DOS Drive. The
Create DOS Partition Or Logical DOS Drive screen appears.
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Create
DOS Partition or Logical DOS Drive
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Choose one of the following:
1. Create Primary DOS Partition
2. Create Extended DOS Partition
3. Create Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS Partition
Enter choice: [1]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
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Press ENTER to choose Create Primary DOS Partition. The Create Primary
DOS Partition screen appears.
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Create
Primary DOS Partition
Current fixed disk drive: 1
Do you wish to use the maximum available size for a Primary DOS
Partition and make the partition active (Y/N)..............?[Y]
Press ESC to return to FDISK Options
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Press ENTER to specify the maximum size for the partition and make the
partition active.
Make sure your Startup disk is in drive A and press any key.
----> Please note that in Win9x you must re-boot in order for any Fdisk
changes to take effect.
Please exit Fdisk and reboot before attempting to format the drive.
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Formatting
Your Hard Disk
You cannot use your hard disk until you format it. To format your hard
disk:
1. Make sure you boot Win98 from your Fat32EBD diskette.
2. Type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER
format <drive>: /U /C /S where <drive> is your hard disk
drive.
For example, if your hard disk drive is drive C, type the following command:
format
c: /U /C /S
KEY:
/U= Unconditional Format - ignores deleted cluster fragments
/C= Re-tests currently marked bad clusters for recovery
/S= Transfers necessary system files so disk can boot
3. Press Y and press ENTER to proceed with formatting.
4. Once formatting is complete, type a volume label if you want one and
press ENTER.
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