Can't load windows on formated hard drive

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Matt Glass

I'm trying to set up a computer for my Grand Pa
I have an old hard drive, that I tried to put XP on at
one time. It worked but I didn't have enough room to do
anything on it so, I replaced it. Now I'm trying to set
it back up again.

I'm trying to put windows 95 or 98, on it.

When I put XP on it I formatted it with NTFS.
To erase XP I formated the drive with FAT32.
Now I'm getting all sorts of errors trying to install the
other software on it. Mostlly it is saying that It can't
load because its not partitioned. It said something about
HPFS or NTFS and that I need to run FDISK, but when I try
to run FDISK, it can't find a hard disk on my system.
Then I formatted it in FAT and had the same results. I
tried to copy sys files on it and they too can't find the
hard drive. whats going on?

Am I missing some hidden sys files, or not formatted
correctlly, or both, or what...

I need to know how to get windows on this empty hard
drive.
What do I need to do, where can I get the software I
need? (My backup disks, start up disks are junk by now
it's been years)
 
I'm trying to set up a computer for my Grand Pa
I have an old hard drive, that I tried to put XP on at
one time. It worked but I didn't have enough room to do
anything on it so, I replaced it. Now I'm trying to set
it back up again.

I'm trying to put windows 95 or 98, on it.

When I put XP on it I formatted it with NTFS.
To erase XP I formated the drive with FAT32.
Now I'm getting all sorts of errors trying to install the
other software on it. Mostlly it is saying that It can't
load because its not partitioned. It said something about
HPFS or NTFS and that I need to run FDISK, but when I try
to run FDISK, it can't find a hard disk on my system.
Then I formatted it in FAT and had the same results. I
tried to copy sys files on it and they too can't find the
hard drive. whats going on?

Am I missing some hidden sys files, or not formatted
correctlly, or both, or what...

I need to know how to get windows on this empty hard
drive.
What do I need to do, where can I get the software I
need? (My backup disks, start up disks are junk by now
it's been years)
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The Win98 CD is bootable and contains all the tools you need to do the
job. Basically, you need to run FDISK and delete the Non DOS
partition, then create a new DOS partition (be it FAT16 or FAT32) and
install 98 into that partition.

Also, please move this discussion to a more relevant newsgroup. You
are trying to install 98, so try there. This is also not related to
hardware.
 
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