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Microsoft => Microsoft DOS => Topic started by: britfin on October 28, 2004, 05:08:34 AM

Title: boot partition
Post by: britfin on October 28, 2004, 05:08:34 AM

I have an old Hardrive and i want to use it. I formated it and then used killdisk on it. after that i tried to install windows 98se through DOS. I got a message "cannot create a temporary directory. if you have HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive you will need to create an MS-DOS boot partition to setup windows".

Can anyone tell me what it means and what to do?   :-/

Title: Re: boot partition
Post by: britfin on October 28, 2004, 07:02:38 AM

sorted 8)

Title: Re: boot partition
Post by: Computer_Commando on October 28, 2004, 09:29:29 AM

Killdisk "Erases partitions, logical drives and even not used disk space".  Use fdisk to create partitions, then format.

Title: Re: boot partition
Post by: CHnetgk5815 on November 01, 2004, 11:24:53 PM

You don't have to create an MS-DOS boot partition to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP if you have a bootable CD drive and go into the BIOS to set up your PC to boot the CD drive first.

Then you can have a completely blank hard drive and the Windows installer will partition and format it for you.