I cannot install Windows 98SE on the following used drives

[IR]

I cannot install Windows 98SE on the following used drives

I purchased 2 used hard drives. 1 Seagate U series 5, 20 Gig and one Maxtor N256 4.3 Gig.
It appears they were used I on a LAN. I used fdisk to delete all partitions and install two new ones. I then formatted the partitions
I cannot install Windows 98Se on either drive

Im getting the following messages

Initializing MBA,Managed PC Boot Agent ver 4.0, Copyright 1999 Lanworks Technologies Co., Subsiduary of 3 Com Corp
Boot method PXE

If you have HPFS or NTFS you must create an MS DOS Boot partition

When trying to install Windows 98 SE I get the following message
Message SU0013
Setup cannot create files on your startup drive and cannot setup Windows 98.
If you have HPFS or NTFS you must create an MS DOS boot partition. If you have LANtastic server or SuperStor compression, disable it for running setup

Tried to install IBM DOS 6.1 and got the following message. Files cannot be installed on your hard disk because all the primary partition table entries in your disk are already in use

Thanks in Advance

[ktkendall]

I believe U would be successful if you get a zero fill utility and that will wipe those disks completely clean, then FDISK, create primary DOS partition, reboot then format fat32, and you should be good to go. There are free downloadable zero fill utilities available, but sorry I just do not remember where I got one at when I needed it.

[flanzig1]

A zero fill utility that I've used is called: Killdisc. It's a free download that fits on floppy.

[glc]

The drives definitely need a zero fill.

http://www.qdigrp.com/qdisite/driver/LF.EXE

Seatools should be able to zero the Seagate, and Powermax or Maxblast should be able to do the Maxtor.