The_Other_One
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OK, loads of problems/questions with this machine... Perhaps someone could be of some assistance...
Basically, at work, we got this Dell in that wouldn't boot proporly. They asked us partition the drive into 3 sections. 1 has XP Media Center, 2 has XP in Persian, 3 has 98 in Persian. The first two were no problem at all. The problems arose when I tried to install 98... I made sure the final partiton was Fat32, but even so, the darn thing keeps saying the drive is compressed or something. Even once when it did start installing, the machine locked up...
So I tinker around with partitions, trying fdisk and such. Finally, I'm told just to try and get XP MCE and XP Pro back on it. OK, so I try to boot from the restore partition...it won't boot
Now I was sure I left that damn 5g partition on there, but for some reason, it won't load it anymore! Was there something on the main partition that caused it to start when you pressed CTRL F11 that got erased? I tried to just set that partition active, but still I got something like could not load kernal...
Any clues? I installed XP on it but I've not had time to really work on it. I left my power addaptor at work for my laptop, so I might run up there tommarow to pick it up, and I could work on this system some more, but I'm quite baffled
Oh, and just for the heck of it... I did try to simply install an 8G drive JUST for 98. But of course, this freakin new dell ONLY has 1 IDE controller and two IDE DVD drives
Basically, at work, we got this Dell in that wouldn't boot proporly. They asked us partition the drive into 3 sections. 1 has XP Media Center, 2 has XP in Persian, 3 has 98 in Persian. The first two were no problem at all. The problems arose when I tried to install 98... I made sure the final partiton was Fat32, but even so, the darn thing keeps saying the drive is compressed or something. Even once when it did start installing, the machine locked up...
So I tinker around with partitions, trying fdisk and such. Finally, I'm told just to try and get XP MCE and XP Pro back on it. OK, so I try to boot from the restore partition...it won't boot
Now I was sure I left that damn 5g partition on there, but for some reason, it won't load it anymore! Was there something on the main partition that caused it to start when you pressed CTRL F11 that got erased? I tried to just set that partition active, but still I got something like could not load kernal...Any clues? I installed XP on it but I've not had time to really work on it. I left my power addaptor at work for my laptop, so I might run up there tommarow to pick it up, and I could work on this system some more, but I'm quite baffled
Oh, and just for the heck of it... I did try to simply install an 8G drive JUST for 98. But of course, this freakin new dell ONLY has 1 IDE controller and two IDE DVD drives
