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

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

 I tried it again with Win98 and it said the same thong when it looked
 and didn't find a MS-DOS Boot partition.

For Test 2: I Fdisked the Hard drive but didn't format it. That gave me
a mesage saying "Windows Setup requires 7340032 bites avaialble on your
C: drive" since the Drive was NOT formatted that didn't supprise me.

For Test 3: I FDisked and Formatted the Drive and put a couple of gig
of Data onit(Music Files becasue they were convient).
This time the install went flawless and the Data already o nthe Drive
was untouched.

I will add at this point that the way I use My CD drive and install form
CD's to have my CD Autorun Truned OFF, I HATE CD's taking charge and
rarchiong off on their Merry way on me. I also use Start/Run to activate
any Setup file.

I did also try the First two test by allowing the Computer to BOOT from
the Win98 CD
I had never tried it that was before and was supprised that the Routine
was Different slightly.

For Test 1: the CD boot routine detected teh Bare(Un Fdiskes/Fromatted
Drive) and ASKED if I wanted to prepair it. When I picked YES it FDisked
the drive and then called for a reboot. Upon Reboot it detected that the
drive was unformatted and Formatted it.

NOW this is using what I call a Plain Vanala Generic OEM win98 CD. The
king yuo would get from the small computer store, when buying Hardware
OF course!!  :-)  :-)
The Branded Computer manfacturers mostly use "Special CD's" that have
been customised to their way of doing things so I cannot speak as to how
they might act.
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