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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