Ah - you obviously wiped the drive, and used fdisk to create new partitions?
The option to 'make active' is present there - it's just not obvious
if you didn't use FDISK - what did you use to create the partition in the
first place?

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Noel Paton
CrashFixPC

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
www.crashfixpc.co.uk
"Piedmont" wrote in message
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What happened was I had to activate the partition, which I'd never heard
of unless i downloaded The Ultimate Boot CD and another, Boot 98se CD.
After that I was able to install 98se, then used my upgrade to ME cd,
thanks all.

"Piedmont" wrote in message
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I have a laptop with no os on it, there is no disk drive, just a cd drive.
how do i install ME on it? I do have an ME Os disk.