Bigripper1
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Switching hard drives
Hi, I asked a question a while back about modem problems and have come to the conclusion that I need to reinstall Windows 98 completely. I have 2 hard drives that are exactly the same size. I have them running master and slave. I would like to install win98 on the slave which is now empty and transfer all my files to it then make it the master. Tech support at Diamond MM tells me to reinstall win98 in order to use a winmodem that I bought due to driver conflicts. I have spent the last 3 days with them going over every detail and this is my last hope. Can you tell me explicitly how to do this? Thanks by the way I have a P133 running win98.
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Apparently that drive has been formatted somehow with an NT disk, as NTFS and HPFS are Windows NT formats, not Windows 9X.
You'll need to remove the partition on that drive and then reinstall a partition. During the Fdisk process you be asked if you want to enable large drive support Y or N, enter yes and then pull the partition, reinsert a partition and then make that partition active.
You'll need to remove the partition on that drive and then reinstall a partition. During the Fdisk process you be asked if you want to enable large drive support Y or N, enter yes and then pull the partition, reinsert a partition and then make that partition active.
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I dont understand this message. The hard drive I have has already been formatted to fat32. When I put in the boot disk it gives me a choice of reinstalling without formatting or formatting then installing. I've tried both and get this message each time. What is HPFS or NTFS?