Partitioning - A procedure were the size of the harddisk is is being divided into several parts or space in preparation for formatting. Is a process of dividing the harddisk into regions called partition. Each partition occupies a group of adjacent cylinders. Partition allows you to organize a harddisk into segments or space in preparation for formatting.
FDISK - is the process of creating partitions into harddisk. Before you install your operating system, you must first create a primary partition on the hard disc (disc 1) in your computer, and then format the partition
Creating Partition Using FDISK for Windows ME and Windows 98
This process will need Windows ME/98 installation Disk or DOS bootable operating system diskette or CD. Once you run the bootable disk it will normally arrive to a:\> prompt. Normally when creating this kind of bootable disk it has the following tools needed. The fdisk.exe format.com. Once you are now on the command prompt just type in FDISK then it will now move on the process of creating partition. Just follow the steps below.
- Creating DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive - Choose this option if you need to create a partition on your computer hard drive.
- Set active partition - If you have created multiple partitions on your hard drive choose this option to specify which partition you wish to set as active. When choosing option 2 to set the active partition, you will see a listing of the current partitions. Choose the number representing the partition you wish to set as active, the default is one.
- Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive - This option is used if you need to delete partition(s) from the computer's hard disc drive.
- Display partition information - Use this option to look at the current fixed disc drive partition information. If you have multiple drives you will need to choose option 5 before being able to display the other hard drive information.
- Display partition information - Use this option to look at the current fixed disc drive partition information. If you have multiple drives you will need to choose option 5 before being able to display the other hard drive information.
How to Delete Partitions of Windows ME/98
- Delete Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS Partition - This option would be used first if you have Extended DOS partitions that you wish to delete.
- Delete Non-DOS Partition - This option is usually used for partitions that have either been created by third party applications, such as a DDO, or by other operating systems, such as IBM Warp, Unix, and others.
- Delete Primary DOS partition - Use this option to delete your main primary partition. However, if you currently have any Extended / Logical DOS partitions, you must delete these partitions before you will be allowed to delete the Primary DOS partition.
- Delete Extended DOS partition - If you have your computer partitioned into more than one drive, use this option to delete the Extended DOS partition(s). You must delete the Logical DOS Drive(s) before you can delete the Extended DOS partition.
Windows 2000 Installation Guide
- Now insert the Windows 2000 Professional CD and reboot your computer. The first menu will now appear, it will say "Press any key to boot from CD...." at this point press the space bar on the computer.
- Windows will start to install. This may take some time as Windows copies file in preparation to install.
- Now press "ENTER" to start the Install. . Windows will start to install. This may take some time as Windows copies file in preparation to install.
- Now the user Agreement, read and Press "F8" to continue, if you disagree press "ESC", setup will then exit.
- Now select the Windows 2000 installation and press "R" to repair. Now the user Agreement, read and Press "F8" to continue, if you disagree press "ESC", setup will then exit.
- Setup will now examine the Drives..and then copy files to the installation folder.
- Next setup will initialize the Windows 2000 configuration.
- Once done setup will be required to reboot, make sure you have to.
- Windows install will start again.Once done setup will be required to reboot.
- Once done setup will be required to reboot, make sure you have to floppies in the drives, and press "ENTER" to speed things up.
- Next setup will initialize the Windows 2000 configuration.
- Regional settings should be correct as of last install, click "NEXT" to continue.And now you get to wait again, be patient the "Installing Devices" part of the install can take forever.
- Now input your Product Key, this is 25 characters long and can be found in the Windows 2000 packaging or on the side or back of your machine. Click next to continue. If you get any errors then double check what you have inputted and make sure you have used the correct letters and numbers.
- If your computer is on a network then click on "YES...." and input the workgroup name, otherwise leave at "NO..." and click "NEXT". More components will now install.And finally click on "FINISH" to complete the Windows 2000 install.
- The computer will now reboot y. Due to the Windows 2000 CD being in drive, the following message will appear "Press any key to boot from CD", do not press anything, just wait for the message to pass.
- You will now arrive at the login screen, login into system as you did before and test system. With any luck all should be OK.
Verifying Device Drivers
- Right click to My Computer Icon in the desktop and select properties (left click).
- Select hardware tab (left click).
- Left click on device manager button.
- On device manager window, check for any warning (! Exclamation point, ? question mark, X mark on any icon) the following warning prompt you to check the device or it’s driver.