HOW TO INSTALL THE WINDOWS 98 UPGRADE
ON A NEW HARD DISK DRIVE
Last updated: 07/29/03
 Boot-up
your computer with the Startup Floppy.
You may have to "tell" the
CMOS to boot to the floppy drive first instead of the hard disk.
Use
FDISK to create a new partition on your new hard disk as follows:
If you remove partitions, you will destroy
everything on them, or, at the least, make it very difficult to recover
any data. I use Western Digital's WD
DIAGS write zero's capability to take Western Digital drives
down to "bare metal." This eliminates possibility
any lingering, overlapping partition/boot track problems which sometimes
crop up. You could also use FDISK to remove existing partitions
on your old hard disk and then proceed with the following steps to clean-install
Windows 98. Be absolutely sure you have a good back-up first. Don't
trust just one tape if using a tape drive.
A:\>fdisk
Will produce the following screen:
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. [this
is usually not a problem]
Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N)...........? [Y]
Push
the Enter key to accept the default [Y] for FAT32. You will get the
following menu:
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
Press
Enter to select the default [1]. The following screen will be displayed:
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
Again,
press Enter to select the default. The following will be displayed
Create Primary DOS partition
Current fixed disk drive : 1
Verifying drive integrity, xx%
complete.
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]
At this point you can press the Enter
key and make the entire drive one partition, your C: drive, or enter
N and make a partition which occupies less than the entire drive. If you
have a large drive, you may want to consider putting more than one partition
on it; i.e., make you C: drive 1-2 GB and the rest of the drive
(a second partition) your D: drive. You will find that a smaller
C: drive will run faster and take a lot less time to defrag. I
leave putting more than one partition on the drive as an exercise for
the more adventurous. Just be sure the partition for the C: drive
is set active and logical drives are assigned to each of the partitions. You
may want to experiment...
After
creating an active partition on the hard drive reboot the computer to the
Startup Floppy and format the drive as follows:
A:\> format c:
Do not use the /s flag with the format
command. We do not want to transfer the system files from the floppy
to the hard disk. Windows 98 will not install on the hard disk
if it already has the system files on it.
Get a cup of coffee...
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