Hmmm,
I am trying to upgrade from Win95 to Win98se on my secondary (out-dated) system, that will not support anything beyond 98se, or IE 5.5. At power up, I am receiving the message to insert a bootable disk in the appropriate drive. When I do that, the DOS screen appears, does an auto scan, then returns with an options to do an FDisk. However, when I type in FDISK, then the message I get back is that there are "No Fixed Disks Present". When I run dir /P, it SHOWS a full hard drive, clean, no errors, or bad sectors --- Go figure! Any suggestions as to how I can re-partition my hard drive from there? Thx, chip618Could your dir command be reading the contents of the bootable disk you put in?Yes, the cd drive works fine, and at the command of "dir", the contents of A: and C: drives displayed. I TRIED several other bootable disks with startup/rescue commands/programs on them, and the directory files show up on the screen on all of them. If I have a disk in drive D: those files also display at the dir command.
FDisk command will not allow any sort of formatting of any drive! Says it's not allowed.
Pulling my hair out! lol, lol.
Thx for any other TIPS!
chip618What bootable disk did you use?Bootable startup disk is an OEM from Microsoft for Win95/98. It has worked fine on another one of my PC's in the past. Therefore, it is reliable. I am afraid that the old PC in question that I am presently struggling with is infected with a virus. So, when I have more time on the matter, I will give it a try with my Norton software.
Thx for taking the time to reply... Any other suggestions WOULD be greatly appreciated!Quote

Bootable startup disk is an OEM from Microsoft for Win95/98. It has worked fine on another one of my PC's in the past. Therefore, it is reliable.