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Article #4009Re: How I repartition Windows 98 without formatting the hard disk for Linux
From: Ivan Dubinsky
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00
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You need to make a system boot disk. I have Windows 95, not 98 but they're pretty similar, I think. In "My Computer", right click on your A: drive or whichever is your bootable floppy drive. Choose "Format" and click on "Copy system files only". This will copy only the files needed to boot from the floppy disk. Make sure that you also copy "fips.exe" onto the same floppy disk. Reboot the computer from the floppy which will leave you at the C: command prompt. From there, just type "fips" amd the fips program will run. Before you do this, however, make sure you run Scandisk AND Defrag, first. This will move all your files to the beginning of the hard drive and enable you to make a larger partition. Hope this helps. Ivan Dubinsky K.H.Wong wrote in message <368F873D.7C164ADD@tm.net.my>... >I have a problem to install Linux in the my Win 98 computer. >I don't want to format my harddisk. >I have tried a FIPS program to repartition the harddisk but it can't >work under >Windows 98. Please help.... >
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