win98

[spider12]

Im trying to reinstall win98 on a system (i created a boot disk and burned cab files onto a cd-r)

Ive ran autoexec.bat and mscdex.exe, and ran setup.exe, but then it says my drive doesn't have a valid fat 32 system on it. Ive tried running every option possible in fdisk and nothing works to create or delete partitions.

Ive also tried formatting C: but it says format isnt supported on drive c:

[redwudz]

I think you will have to boot from a floppy disk to use fdisk in that way. A CD boot may work, but a floppy is a lot easier, at least for partitioning and formating.

Have you set your BIOS to boot from a floppy? Then fdisk should work just fine. The W98 system files can be added after the repartition and reformat.

[spider12]

The boot sequence is A, CDROM, C

Im thinkin also the HD may be corrupted, because when i tried a disk copy with drive image it said "error bad pointer"

[Dr. DOS]

Get vendor of HD and see if on the Mfg web site they offer 1) diags and 2) low-level format utility.

HTH

[bazooka]

You could also try to use the DOS bootdisk and delete the active partition.

Create a new partition and format it.

Then you start trying to install again.

[spider12]

yep, that worked.

[bazooka]

yep, that worked.

Which method worked.

I am glad whatever you did worked.

[spider12]

dlded a low level format software from the fujitsu site, putit on a floppy then ran it through dos.

[spider12]

You could also try to use the DOS bootdisk and delete the active partition.

Create a new partition and format it.

Then you start trying to install again

Yea, i tried to delete any partition from fdisk but it wouldnt let me.