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Installing Win 98

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 08/01/2006
From: tom_the-confused
Message:

Hi very new to this so please bear with me ;=)

My host pc has a hard drive formatted to ntfs - when i tried to install win
98 in virtual pc 2004 it stopped because it wanted a fat format. can i run
fdisk in virtual pc to create the right environment or will this effect my
host system?
Thanks

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Re: Installing Win 98

Sent: 08/01/2006
From: tom_the-confused
Message:

Thanks

Its quite a strange feeling "formatting" your had drive without actaully
doing it!

"Mark Rae" wrote:

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> "tom_the-confused" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in
> message news:(email address - cut out)...
>
> > My host pc has a hard drive formatted to ntfs - when i tried to install
> > win
> > 98 in virtual pc 2004 it stopped because it wanted a fat format. can i run
> > fdisk in virtual pc to create the right environment or will this effect my
> > host system?
>
> Nothing to do with your host machine's hard disk's format...
>
> You need to boot your Virtual PC with a boot floppy, run FDISK to create the
> partition for Win98, format it, then install Win98.
>
> Exactly as if you were installing it onto a real PC instead of a virtual PC.
>
>
>

Re: Installing Win 98

Sent: 08/01/2006
From: "Mark Rae" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"tom_the-confused" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in
message news:(email address - cut out)...

Nothing to do with your host machine's hard disk's format...

You need to boot your Virtual PC with a boot floppy, run FDISK to create the
partition for Win98, format it, then install Win98.

Exactly as if you were installing it onto a real PC instead of a virtual PC.

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> My host pc has a hard drive formatted to ntfs - when i tried to install
> win
> 98 in virtual pc 2004 it stopped because it wanted a fat format. can i run
> fdisk in virtual pc to create the right environment or will this effect my
> host system?

Re: Installing Win 98

Sent: 08/01/2006
From: "Robert Moir" <robspamtrap+(email address - cut out)>
Message:

tom_the-confused wrote:

Yes, we get a lot of people asking about this one. I quite like Colin's
analogy for it!

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> Thanks
>
> Its quite a strange feeling "formatting" your had drive without
> actaully doing it!

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