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Have a machine for a customer who wants to remove XP and go back to 98. This
is a brand new Compaq, with no floppy drive. So cant FDISK the drive from
floppy, etc.

Any suggestions on getting XP off the drive and 98 on will be greatly
appreciated.

Make a bootable CD with the utils you need...this site should help you.
www.bootdisk.com

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Mark
MCSA, CNA, A+, Net+, iNet+, Server+
"Rick Todd" <> wrote in message
news:sY8Oc.3719$...
> Have a machine for a customer who wants to remove XP and go back to 98.
This
> is a brand new Compaq, with no floppy drive. So cant FDISK the drive from
> floppy, etc.
>
> Any suggestions on getting XP off the drive and 98 on will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>

"Rick Todd" <> wrote in message
news:sY8Oc.3719$...
> Have a machine for a customer who wants to remove XP and go back to 98.
This
> is a brand new Compaq, with no floppy drive. So cant FDISK the drive from
> floppy, etc.
>
> Any suggestions on getting XP off the drive and 98 on will be greatly
> appreciated.

If you have an XP or 2000 CD handy, you can boot off it and go into Recovery
Console, which is basically just a command prompt. You can then use
diskpart (similar to FDISK) to partition the drive, and then format it as a
FAT32 drive.

http://www.aaltonen.us/archives/2004..._addendum.html

This site will explain the process of turning a USB drive into a
bootable disk that you can then load with the utilities you need.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:45:28 GMT, "Rick Todd"
<> wrote:

>Have a machine for a customer who wants to remove XP and go back to 98. This
>is a brand new Compaq, with no floppy drive. So cant FDISK the drive from
>floppy, etc.
>
>Any suggestions on getting XP off the drive and 98 on will be greatly
>appreciated.
>

"Rick Todd" <> wrote in message
news:sY8Oc.3719$...

> Have a machine for a customer who wants to remove XP and go back to 98.
This
> is a brand new Compaq, with no floppy drive. So cant FDISK the drive from
> floppy, etc.
>
> Any suggestions on getting XP off the drive and 98 on will be greatly
> appreciated.
>

If you dont know how to accomplish something as trivial as this, you
shouldnt really be tinkering around with other peoples computers, especially
brand new ones, and ESPECIALLY not for money!.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:17:38 -0400, "ImhoTech" <>
wrote:

>
>"Rick Todd" <> wrote in message
>news:sY8Oc.3719$...
>> Have a machine for a customer who wants to remove XP and go back to 98.
>This
>> is a brand new Compaq, with no floppy drive. So cant FDISK the drive from
>> floppy, etc.
>>
>> Any suggestions on getting XP off the drive and 98 on will be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>>
>
>Here's a suggestion..don't do it. And at least tell the customer if you do
>the job you won't warranty it. Nor will compaq after a fashion. They may
>still have a warranty but they won't get support other than catastrophic
>hardware failure, i.e. if the computer will boot but has a problem, step one
>with compaq support will be recovery disks.
>

Right...the mistake was made when the customer bought a proprietary PC
while not wanting its OS...although maybe he/she just didn't know it
at the time

Tom

Stick a full version of Windows98 back into the cdrom tray, force the
machine to boot to the cdrom drive through cmos, and when you get the boot
menu--which you will, just select "Boot from cdrom", then select "start
computer with cdrom", get to the A:\ and type FDISK and just delete the
partition.
"Rick Todd" <> wrote in message
news:sY8Oc.3719$...
> Have a machine for a customer who wants to remove XP and go back to 98.
This
> is a brand new Compaq, with no floppy drive. So cant FDISK the drive from
> floppy, etc.
>
> Any suggestions on getting XP off the drive and 98 on will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>

And I've got a client who runs W3.1, won't update and has lost her disks so
I suppose I should have a look for a set on Ebay! Alan A+


"Rick Todd" <> wrote in message
news:sY8Oc.3719$...
> Have a machine for a customer who wants to remove XP and go back to 98.
This
> is a brand new Compaq, with no floppy drive. So cant FDISK the drive from
> floppy, etc.
>
> Any suggestions on getting XP off the drive and 98 on will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>

Rick Todd wrote:
> Have a machine for a customer who wants to remove XP and go back to
> 98. This is a brand new Compaq, with no floppy drive. So cant FDISK
> the drive from floppy, etc.
>
> Any suggestions on getting XP off the drive and 98 on will be greatly
> appreciated.

just boot off the win98 cd and run fdisk from that

To boot off the cd, you'll have to go into setup and change the boot options
to boot the cd first, then 98 cd has tools in oldmsdos folder to fdisk and
reformat hard-drive, and then install 98 and drivers....etc.....

"Geoff" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Rick Todd wrote:
> > Have a machine for a customer who wants to remove XP and go back to
> > 98. This is a brand new Compaq, with no floppy drive. So cant FDISK
> > the drive from floppy, etc.
> >
> > Any suggestions on getting XP off the drive and 98 on will be greatly
> > appreciated.
>
> just boot off the win98 cd and run fdisk from that
>
>