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Hello Newsgroups
I am mainly familiar with Win2K and WinXP installs, so when I get a Win98 box to fix, I am oftened stumbled. The case: I had problems fixing a virussed Win98 box, and tried all the obvious ways to remove the virus manually and with tools, but in the end the only practical way was to re- install Win98. First I had problems using the standard boot disk that came with the customers computer, as the boot disk did not have format.com on the floppy. So, I created a setup disk with the Win98 tools, and therfore was able to format the drive c: and get rid of old infected files, or so I thought. Unfrotunately, I only made the main active disk 650 mb. Now I am realsing that I forgot to make the biggest disk possible. I still have approx 15 gb spare, free, and unpartitioned. Question is, how do I now create a drive (in the free space) now that I have Win98 succesfully installed on such a small primary drive? Obviously if it was a W2K machine then I could use MMC or a third party tool. I don't want to have to blow away the machine again, as this would take some time. I want to deliver the computer back to the customer ASAP. Questions: 1. is it simply a matter of using fdisk.exe again to create a logical drive, and I will see this drive when I start the primary operating system again? Or, do I have to use another tool, or start all over again. I downloaded a partitioning tool, but it seem that this only works on already created drives, not free space. Appreciate all advice in advance. Many Thanks |
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"cammos" wrote in message ...
I had problems fixing a virussed Win98 box, and tried all the obvious ways to remove the virus manually and with tools, but in the end the only practical way was to re- install Win98. First I had problems using the standard boot disk that came with the customers computer, as the boot disk did not have format.com on the floppy. So, I created a setup disk with the Win98 tools, and therfore was able to format the drive c: and get rid of old infected files, or so I thought. Unfrotunately, I only made the main active disk 650 mb. Now I am realsing that I forgot to make the biggest disk possible. I still have approx 15 gb spare, free, and unpartitioned. You can use fdisk to create another partition in the free space, but you might (or probably will) have problems with such a small system partition. Take into account the swap file, the temporary interent files, and the default program install location, and your customer will run out of space, or in the case of the paging file, memory,, very quickly. There are ways to relocate some things, but who's going to be around to take care of it, if they revert back to the default location for whatever reason. Question is, how do I now create a drive (in the free space) now that I have Win98 succesfully installed on such a small primary drive? fdisk create I don't want to have to blow away the machine again, as this would take some time. I want to deliver the computer back to the customer ASAP. Use a third party tool to resize the primary C:. Bootit NG can be used. Run it from a DOS boot and cancel the install when prompted. |
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I would start over and make it all 1 partition
then fresh install. My C is 2.56Gig and 1.02 used with nothing other thaan Win98-SE using it, I still have minor swapp file problems from time to time. 650Mb would be ok for a D storage drive, win98, and all drivers this also saves on load up time. Hope this helps. -----Original Message----- Hello Newsgroups I am mainly familiar with Win2K and WinXP installs, so when I get a Win98 box to fix, I am oftened stumbled. The case: I had problems fixing a virussed Win98 box, and tried all the obvious ways to remove the virus manually and with tools, but in the end the only practical way was to re- install Win98. First I had problems using the standard boot disk that came with the customers computer, as the boot disk did not have format.com on the floppy. So, I created a setup disk with the Win98 tools, and therfore was able to format the drive c: and get rid of old infected files, or so I thought. Unfrotunately, I only made the main active disk 650 mb. Now I am realsing that I forgot to make the biggest disk possible. I still have approx 15 gb spare, free, and unpartitioned. Question is, how do I now create a drive (in the free space) now that I have Win98 succesfully installed on such a small primary drive? Obviously if it was a W2K machine then I could use MMC or a third party tool. I don't want to have to blow away the machine again, as this would take some time. I want to deliver the computer back to the customer ASAP. Questions: 1. is it simply a matter of using fdisk.exe again to create a logical drive, and I will see this drive when I start the primary operating system again? Or, do I have to use another tool, or start all over again. I downloaded a partitioning tool, but it seem that this only works on already created drives, not free space. Appreciate all advice in advance. Many Thanks . |
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Thanks for Greg and Bills clarification on the inevitable.
-----Original Message----- "cammos" wrote in message ... I had problems fixing a virussed Win98 box, and tried all the obvious ways to remove the virus manually and with tools, but in the end the only practical way was to re- install Win98. First I had problems using the standard boot disk that came with the customers computer, as the boot disk did not have format.com on the floppy. So, I created a setup disk with the Win98 tools, and therfore was able to format the drive c: and get rid of old infected files, or so I thought. Unfrotunately, I only made the main active disk 650 mb. Now I am realsing that I forgot to make the biggest disk possible. I still have approx 15 gb spare, free, and unpartitioned. You can use fdisk to create another partition in the free space, but you might (or probably will) have problems with such a small system partition. Take into account the swap file, the temporary interent files, and the default program install location, and your customer will run out of space, or in the case of the paging file, memory,, very quickly. There are ways to relocate some things, but who's going to be around to take care of it, if they revert back to the default location for whatever reason. Question is, how do I now create a drive (in the free space) now that I have Win98 succesfully installed on such a small primary drive? fdisk create I don't want to have to blow away the machine again, as this would take some time. I want to deliver the computer back to the customer ASAP. Use a third party tool to resize the primary C:. Bootit NG can be used. Run it from a DOS boot and cancel the install when prompted. . |
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Rather than starting over, enlarge the partition with a partitioning
program. I use: BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for FREE for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "cammos" wrote in message ... Hello Newsgroups I am mainly familiar with Win2K and WinXP installs, so when I get a Win98 box to fix, I am oftened stumbled. The case: I had problems fixing a virussed Win98 box, and tried all the obvious ways to remove the virus manually and with tools, but in the end the only practical way was to re- install Win98. First I had problems using the standard boot disk that came with the customers computer, as the boot disk did not have format.com on the floppy. So, I created a setup disk with the Win98 tools, and therfore was able to format the drive c: and get rid of old infected files, or so I thought. Unfrotunately, I only made the main active disk 650 mb. Now I am realsing that I forgot to make the biggest disk possible. I still have approx 15 gb spare, free, and unpartitioned. Question is, how do I now create a drive (in the free space) now that I have Win98 succesfully installed on such a small primary drive? Obviously if it was a W2K machine then I could use MMC or a third party tool. I don't want to have to blow away the machine again, as this would take some time. I want to deliver the computer back to the customer ASAP. Questions: 1. is it simply a matter of using fdisk.exe again to create a logical drive, and I will see this drive when I start the primary operating system again? Or, do I have to use another tool, or start all over again. I downloaded a partitioning tool, but it seem that this only works on already created drives, not free space. Appreciate all advice in advance. Many Thanks |
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