Installing Windows 98 on a Clean, Empty Hard Disk Drive

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Installing Windows 98 on a Clean, Empty Hard Disk
Drive
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What We Will Discuss

• What we need to have to get started
• Creating a bootable diskette
• Using Fdisk to prepare the hard drive
• Selecting a file system
• Creating drive letters
• Using Format
• Accessing the CD-ROM drive
• Running Setup

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What We Will Assume

• The drive is already installed (physically)
• The computers CMOS is set up properly with
  regard to the drive
• Auto-detect works in most cases when using IDE
  drives
• No CMOS settings are needed for SCSI drives

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What We Need to Have to Get Started

• A bootable diskette with driver files needed to
  read your CD-ROM drive
• More on this later
• The Microsoft Windows 98 CD (full version or
  upgrade)
• A qualifying product if using the upgrade CD
• Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 3.x

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Getting Started

• Disable CMOS antivirus
• Make sure you have drivers for your hardware if
  Windows 98 did not ship them
• Disk Overlay software installation
• Only if required
• You will use this software to create partitions
  and format drives

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Creating A Bootable Diskette from an Operable
Computer

• Run the file Fat32ebd.exe from the
  ltcdromgt\tools\msutil\Fat32ebd directory
• You will need a blank, 1.44 MB floppy
• Boot your computer with this diskette
• 1. Start computer with CD-ROM support
• 2. Start computer without CD-ROM support
• Choose option 2 this time
• It will boot to an A\gt prompt

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The Concept of Partitions

• Hard drives are divided into areas called
  partitions
• There are 2 types
• Primary Partitions
• Extended Partitions
• Primary Partitions get drive letters assigned
  directly to them

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Extended Partition

• The Extended Partition will take up the remainder
  of the drive
• Extended Partitions contain Logical drives
• Logical drives have drive letters assigned to
  them after the Primary Partition(s) get theirs

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Partitioning
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Partitioning (continued)
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Partitioning (continued)
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Partitioning (continued)
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Using Fdisk to Create Partitions and Logical
Drives

• We use Fdisk to allocate portions of your drive
  into partitions
• The primary partition on the first hard disk
  drive gets the letter C
• Logical drives are created in the Extended
  Partition and given letters D, E,
• From the A\gt prompt, type FDISK then hit enter

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FAT16 or FAT32 Considerations

• If your drive is larger than 512 MB, you will be
  asked if you need to enable large disk support.
• Large Disk Support enables the FAT32 file system
  allowing drives to be larger than 2 GB
• Will you install other operating systems that
  need to read this drive?
• If Yes, you will want to use FAT16 on the Primary
  Partition

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Enabling Large Disk Support
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The Fdisk Main Menu

• You will only have four options on this screen if
  there is only one hard disk drive in the computer
• Select Option 1 to create a partition

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Creating a Partition

• Select Option 1 to create a Primary Partition
• Follow the prompts on the screen

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Creating an Extended Partition

• Select Option 2 to create an Extended Partition
• Follow prompts to create Logical drives

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Make the Primary Partition Active

• If you defined multiple partitions, choose Option
  2 to set the Primary Partition as active

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Formatting Your Drive

• A\gt FORMAT C /S
• If logical drives have been defined
• A\gtFORMAT D (without the /s)
• A\gtFORMAT E (without the /s)
• Repeat for each Logical Drive
• Volume Labels can be added later
• Reboot when finished using the boot floppy you
  created and choose CD-ROM support

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Running Setup for Windows 98

• CD-ROM Drive Letter
• Will get the next drive letter after the last one
  assigned to the hard drive, D for example
• Run Windows 98 Setup from the CD
• Put the Windows 98 CD in the CD-ROM drive
• Change to the CD-ROM Drive
• D ltpress ENTERgt
• Run Setup from the D prompt
• D\gtSETUP lt press ENTERgt

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More information can be found at
http//support.microsoft.com/

• Q187632 How to Create a Windows 98 Startup Disk
  that Supports FAT32
• Q51978 Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign
  Drive Letters
• Q186057 How to Tell If Drive Overlay Program Is
  Installed in Windows

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