I have a Dell CPx laptop that "had" Windows 2k Pro on it when I got it. I wanted to change it over to Windows 98, which I have a full version disc, along with the SE update cd. The harddrive was partitioned into 5gb and 15gb partitions, in NTFS format.
Using fdisk from a boot disk I downloaded I have managed to delete what was a working OS, but cannot get Win98 to enter setup. In fdisk I see the 2 partitions but the smaller one I formatted using the bootdisk shows as FAT12.
As my username indicates, I am NOT very experienced in this stuff. I want to end up with Windows 98SE on this unit, but I don't know how to format the existing drive as FAT 32. I know enough to know I have to at least get the 5gb partition into FAT32 to load the Win98 OS onto. Then from windows I think I can reformat the larger partition.