I want to remove NT from my laptop. It won't budge. I cannot get it to boot off of the cd rom and it dosn't have a floppy. The 98 disc says it isn't in the mood unless in DOS. I cannot restart in dos on NT and the dos window in NT won't let me do much. NO format or fdisk. Any help? Please.

For format the disc or install another OS you have to be able to boot from a floppy or CD. If you go into the bios you should be able to set the machine to boot from the CD.

The only other thing I can think of is that you could probably do an upgrade install with a windows 2000 or XP disc.

It will start from a CD.. but NT is NTFS... and you will have to KILL NT..

FDISKIT!

You need a boot CD, with just DOS on it..

cd
D:
D:FDISK
wwwhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrr..





M

Roof test it!

Ok I'm in. Been a long time since I'v had to fart around. Never even thought to change the bios worked great! For 98 do I want a dos partition? I am at the whrrrrrr part of things with fdisk

Yes DOS partition/partitions...

Remember to make one active, or get caught in a loop made in Hell, by Satan hisself.


M

Its a panasonic toughbook I bought for $200.00 for the garage. Might survive the roof test. Thanks to you guys my manuals are on disk. It would be nice to have a puter out in the garage. It's a p2 300. If i got a crappy deal let me know.

How big is the drive?

Dood, it's all relative... if you have a useful tool for 200... well YEEEHAW!

The only thing you will miss later is an ethernet port... for tuning neato injection, etc...


M

Did it prompt you and ask if you wanted the DOS partition?

nevermind

Windows 98 should be a bootable CD, I have several of them. It will come up and ask if you want to boot to CD, then it will prompt you to start setup from CD or boot with CD rom support or without it. Boot with it. Then type fdisk and tell it to treat NTFS as a large disk. Then delete non dos partition. Then recreate the partition in FAT32, reboot. Then once its done booting up, go to the CD drive, probably D. Then type cd win98. Then type format C: /s enter. I may have missed a few steps on that as it has been awhile since I had to do that. Give it a shot, otherwise, do try the roof test.

Sounds like you are already half way there, disregard what I said, I type too slow.

We are not men, we are geek.




M

3 gig. Yes it prompted me for the dos partition. thanks. Oh for the motorcyclists out there I can tune my powercommander now.

One time we roof tested the microwave. I've never seen so many cacaroaches in my life. I only knew of the one that was smashed under the plastic that covered the clock on it.

But why install Win98?? I'd much rather have NT4 as an OS or preferable Windows 2000.

huh?? NT isn't compatible with USB and all that rot. Win2K is guud in my house. NT at my office blows chunks.

uhoh.... here we go..



Anyone have an Apple? I have an Apple, it's got one ugly button, and it hides all the broken stuff, so you can't fix it.

OSX doesn't support 100Gb drives yet...


M

That is why. I have a licensed copy of 98 and want to use the usb for the camera.

Oh I don't type very fast. I cut the tendons on my right hand and honestly never did learn to type properly. So you guys get out a paragraph in what it takes me to get out a sentance.

But one a day keeps the DR away.

I should have come here first. I was f-ing around with this all night. ten min. with help from you guys and I have halfway formatted the hard drive.

It's a riddle, wrapped in enigma, hidden behind something you didn't put up in the shop...


m

that would be Win95 ...

NT 4, Servicepack 3 or higher will do just fine.
in fact, i am still running a few servers on NT 4 (SP 6).
and yes, it does recognize my USB ports ...

Andy

PS: for a schlepptop i would go Win2000 or even XP ...

MY apple has 120 hard drive and 250 hard drive and I run panther
It just a G4

JM