I was told to just put in the disc, and go along with it, but now it gets to some"what aperature space do you want to use", or something close to that. None of the options I can choose will work, except for having two OS's, and I dont want that. Dont I need to reformat? Can anyone walk me through this. Dont I just reformat then pop in the disc? Anything important I need to know while doing this? Please, some help!
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How to install an OS?
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Lets start at the begining:
1. What OS are you trying to install?
2. Is this a new install to a new hard drive?
1. What OS are you trying to install?
2. Is this a new install to a new hard drive?
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and you want to dual boot(keep ME and add XP)
do you have a chat client? AOL, MSN, Yahoo? This would be easier during a chat.
do you have a chat client? AOL, MSN, Yahoo? This would be easier during a chat.
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Upgrading from anything to XP is a nightmare. XP offers 2 types of installation packages, upgrade or full product. Which CD do you have?
It will be soooo much less of a head ache
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Assuming you want to start fresh:
(optional step)1. Partition the hard drive(using FDISK pre OS install, or 3rd party software(Partition Magic)post OS install)
2. Format HDD, NTFS or FAT32, I recommend NTFS(the install disk should do this for you, it should give you the option)
3. Boot to the CD and start the process
Do you have RAID?
(optional step)1. Partition the hard drive(using FDISK pre OS install, or 3rd party software(Partition Magic)post OS install)
2. Format HDD, NTFS or FAT32, I recommend NTFS(the install disk should do this for you, it should give you the option)
3. Boot to the CD and start the process
Do you have RAID?
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I dont have RAID. I dont even know what it is.
It did give me an option for NTFS.
The install disc never gave me an option to reformat. It gave me crap about partitioned, and unpartitioned space , but wouldnt let me do any of the options. It had one to erase the partitioned space, but when I click for it it said it couldnt do it because it was holding temporary files in the space.
Cant I just right click on my harddrive in My Computer and reformat from there, then pop in the disc, and do the install?
It did give me an option for NTFS.
The install disc never gave me an option to reformat. It gave me crap about partitioned, and unpartitioned space , but wouldnt let me do any of the options. It had one to erase the partitioned space, but when I click for it it said it couldnt do it because it was holding temporary files in the space.
Cant I just right click on my harddrive in My Computer and reformat from there, then pop in the disc, and do the install?
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you can't format from Windows, what you need to do is create a boot disk with FDISK on it, repartition your hard drive, then format using FORMAT. Then once the drive is partitioned and formatted install the OS.
a good place to get decent bootdisk is http://bootdisk.com here is link to a Win98SE bootdisk that has FDISK and Format on it.
http://dos.li5.org/IMGS/WIN98SE.EXE
click the link and save the file, then insert a floppy and run the program it will create the bootdisk.
Have you ever used FDISK and FORMAT?
a good place to get decent bootdisk is http://bootdisk.com here is link to a Win98SE bootdisk that has FDISK and Format on it.
http://dos.li5.org/IMGS/WIN98SE.EXE
click the link and save the file, then insert a floppy and run the program it will create the bootdisk.
Have you ever used FDISK and FORMAT?
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Doens't matter what you have, that is just the boot disk we chose to use, we selected it because it has FDISK and FORMAT on it, we could have WIN95, WINME, anything as long as it had FDISK and FORMAT.
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I assume you have 2 computers, the one you are working on, and the one you are going to do the new install to.
Here are the steps:
Boot to the floppy disk(Once you create the bootdisk, install it into the machine(start/restart the machine with the disk in))
1. At the A:\> type FDISK and hit enter. This will start the FDISK utility.
2. We will run the utility and setup the hard drive as one giant partition.(this requires several steps)
3. Once the disk is partitioned then we restart again leaving the floppy in.
4. at the A:\> type FORMAT C:. This will format the hardrive
after that is done we will install the OS
Here are the steps:
Boot to the floppy disk(Once you create the bootdisk, install it into the machine(start/restart the machine with the disk in))
1. At the A:\> type FDISK and hit enter. This will start the FDISK utility.
2. We will run the utility and setup the hard drive as one giant partition.(this requires several steps)
3. Once the disk is partitioned then we restart again leaving the floppy in.
4. at the A:\> type FORMAT C:. This will format the hardrive
after that is done we will install the OS
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I only asked that because once you start the process you won't have access to ask for help or to download any last minute items or drives you might need...
What you need to do is simple, but it nice to have someone walk you through, especially since FDISK can look complicated if you never used it before.
What you need to do is simple, but it nice to have someone walk you through, especially since FDISK can look complicated if you never used it before.
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There isn't a good manual for FDISK and the values will look weird(it's and outdated program that doesn't handle large hard drives well)while you are running it, but I assure you everything will be fine. I will walk you through the steps of FDISK before you need to run it. Give me a second to type them up.
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