menu allows you to assign remaining hard drive space to additional
drive letters and assign space to each logical drive in MB or as a per-
centage of available remaining disk space.- Keep dividing until the system tells you that all available space in the
Extended DOS Partition has been assigned. - Press Esc until you quit FDISK and return to the command prompt.
The next manual task is to format the drive. - Restart the laptop with the Windows 98 Startup disk in the floppy
drive. - From the Start menu, choose Start Computer Without CD-ROM
Support. - When a command prompt is displayed, type FORMAT C:and press
Enter.
I’m assuming the new drive is called C. Nearly all laptops have only one
internal hard drive, and it is almost always labeled as C. If for some
reason you want to format a drive of a different label, change the com-
mand. Be sure to include the colon after the drive letter.
You’re going to see a threatening message something (or exactly) like this:
WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE C: WILL BE
LOST! Proceed with Format (Y/N)?- If you’re sure of what you’re doing, press the Y key and then Enter to
begin the format.
Once formatting is completed, you are asked to give the volume a name:
Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?
You don’t have to give your hard drive a name, but sometimes it helps
you quickly recognize the drive on a network. You can use any name of
as many as 11 characters. Don’t use symbols or spaces in the name. - Repeat the formatting and labeling process for any additional drive
letters you created.
Once the drive is partitioned, formatted, and labeled, you can install
Windows 98. - Insert the Startup disk in the floppy drive and restart the computer.
- This time, choose Start Computer with CD-ROM Support.
From this point on, the CD installation disk for Windows 98 should
take over. Answer the questions posed on screen and proceed through
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