Need Help

[wellensa29]

Just had some computers donated to us that are better than half of what we have (we are nonprofit organization). They ran win95 prior - trying to setup NT - when running setup I recieved the error "setup is unable to locate the hard drive partition prepared gy the MS-DOS portion of setup".
I am really new to this so have no idea what to do - how to access fdisk etc., Please help

Thanks
Aubre

[newme]

hello
you have to put a bootable floppy in ,at the prompt A, type fdisk to remove your dos partition then use fdisk to create a dos partition reboot then type format c:/s remember all data will be lost doing this and make sure you choose with cd rom support so you can use your cd to set up your os.
hope that helps ,maybe someone can explain it better been a while since ive done it.

[Confused]

What kind are they. Some of the older Compaq's have a non DOS partition that contains BIOS information. If that gets deleted then you will not be able to even boot to load a new OS.
Chas

[ktkendall]

Originally posted by newme hello you have to put a bootable floppy in ,at the prompt A, type fdisk to remove your dos partition then use fdisk to create a dos partition reboot then type format c:/s remember all data will be lost doing this and make sure you choose with cd rom support so you can use your cd to set up your os. hope that helps ,maybe someone can explain it better been a while since ive done it.

Don't forget here they are trying to install NT so I don't think format C: /s will help to get NT installed. I"m not sure if NT disk is bootable, Didn't it come with it's own boot floppies???

[wellensa29]

thanks guys - finally got it and all is working well

[wellensa29]

Having same problem with a different computer and no luck getting further

The bootable disks I have are 3 WINNT setup disks. Is there a different bootable disk that would give me a prompt to try the fdisk you are referring to?

Again - new to some of this am learning pretty well though.