formatting new drive for win 98 install

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chuck - 14 Feb 2004 01:33 GMT

the partition seems to work. it's a 6 gb drive and says
the primary dos partition is 5.7 gb. but when i try to
run setup for win 98 on it i get an error saying that i
need 7 mb of free space. there should be plenty of free
space. the partition information does say that there is
100% usage but i am assuming that that does not mean the
disk is 100% used. why doesn't win 98 setup recognize
the free space?

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Jeff Richards - 14 Feb 2004 02:56 GMT

There is no such message that I am aware of. For a similar message and it's
cause see
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=191369
Not Enough Disk Space Error Message During Windows 98 Setup

The message from FDISK that the disk is 100% used means that 100% of the
disk is allocated to the partitions, which would be typical. The important
information is the partition detail - size, type, etc.

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> the partition seems to work. it's a 6 gb drive and says
> the primary dos partition is 5.7 gb. but when i try to
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> disk is 100% used. why doesn't win 98 setup recognize
> the free space?

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philo - 14 Feb 2004 10:17 GMT

did you reboot the machine after your ran fdisk
but before you formatted the drive?

i;d just try formatting the drive again

if it does not work
i'd start all over by running fdisk and deleting all
then recreating

reboot and format

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