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to: TOM WALKER
from: CHARLES ANGELICH
date: 2005-04-01 21:33:00
subject: w98 & HDs anyway

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Hello Tom - 

CA>> To simulate a new/blank hard drive you may need to use one
CA>> of those utilities that writes all zeros to the drive. If
CA>> it looks to be fdisk'd and formatted I doubt you will see
CA>> what they are referring to. 

TW> Just did that one in the Middle of this packet after
TW> answering this post once already. My GENERIC OEM Win98Se CD
TW> gave me this Message; 

TW> "You Need to Create an MS-DOS Boot Partition to set up
TW> Windows" 

The OEM CD that fdisk'd and formatted the drive on me was for
W98. Don't know if that makes a difference or not? 

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