This is a new one for me. I have a KT 133/E/A K7 Chipset with AMD Duron
750Mhz and 512 RAM and 30Gig HD. I received the box with the HD already wiped
clean. Fdisk showed no partitions. When I first started it up I entered BIOS to
double check settings. All appeared ok. I began installing Win98se. It
said it wasn't eligible for a quick format and asked if I wanted an
unconditional format. I said ok. It hung on "trying to reclaim cluster" number such and
such. It stayed there about 45 minutes. I restarted. Checked fdisk which
showed one active partition 30gig fat32. Tried to install Win98 and setup
stopped saying I needed more space to install the OS. I don't know what was on the
HD prior to me getting it. Could it be it had NTFS or HPFS on it and I can't
format using Win98 startup disk? How would I go about formatting HD?
TIA,
Kevin Nowicki
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