Novice needs help partitioning and installing OS on Slave drive

[DigitalSamurai]

HI,

I would like to create a primary partition on a slave drive.

My master drive is NTFS Win XP and is 30 gig.

My slave drive is 40 gig. I would like to put Win98 (OEM I believe) on it.

I have tried to get to FDisk on my master drive but I can’t find a disk that will get me to the prompt AND have Fdisk on it.

I have no idea what cluster size and file architecture to use i.e. 32k, Fat 32?

I am a novice to this sort of thing and am very worried about erasing my master drive or making it unbootable.

Would someone be so kind as to give me precise instructions (step by step) so that I can do this safely?

Thank you very much,
Gene

 

[geo87]

Read this and print it out for later.

http://www.newlogic.co.uk/kbase/fdisk/page2.htm

 

[wunkunn]

Although my mind is somewhat fuzzy, I don't believe you can install an operating system on a slave drive. I believe that the drive must be the "C" drive to run fdisk amd load an operating system on it. I would disconnect the XP drive, and set the slave drive as master. fdisk it and load win98 on it. After all is working OK, reconnect the XP drive as master and reset the w98 drive as the slave. You need a floppy with DOS fdisk and format on it. I wouldn't try to use any XP or W2K files with W98 or ME. They might cause more problems than you want to deal with. Good Luck

 

[tshot]

u can fdisk a slave device. see the link suugested by geo87 or try it ur self




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ur feedback is a very welcome desire

 

[minuteman263]

I have 2 drives in my machine. 1 primary master, and 1 primary slave. I enter into the bios setup to switch on which ever drive I want to use. I would suggest that you go into your bios setup and disable your primary master drive, so that your machine will only recognize the slave drive. After doing that you should be able to start an install like normal. The windows disc should give you the option of formatting for fat or fat32. If you really want to play it safe, just unplug your primary drive during the install. That way there is no possibility that your primary operating system will be affected in any way.
Good luck.