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I currently am running Windows XP profetional on my computer which is a HP pavilion 8668c. The 28 gig drive is partitioned at 9 gig (C: ) for the primary partition (which has XP OS on it) and the other 18 gig (D: ) is for my files i download and games. Anywase, I tryed to use the system recovery cd that came with the computer to when i bought it and it did its thing like it should have and said it was formatting drive c and installing windows 98 over that drive. When it finished and I restarted instead of coming up in 98 it loaded XP. Apparently it loaded 98 to the other drive, D. So i formatted drive d to erase 98, deleted the partition to extend drive C to its full 28 gig and redid the system restore. Only this time after the restore screen comes up for a few seconds, it tells me theres an error and that i have no hard drive installed and to use FDISK to instilize it if its not already. But when i use FDISK it reconized the drive and says its already instilized. By the way, the drive C is formated in NTSF (because of XP i suppose) and the drive D was FAT32. As far as i can tell the 98 recovery disk cant reconize the drive because its in NTSF format which isnt supported by 98.
It would be a great help if somebody could tell me what to do in this situation.

Try using your xp upgrade disk to repair the installation, then have xp reformat the drive to fat 32 then redo the 98SE restore.

Yep, it's because 98 can't see NTFS partitions. It'll show up under fdisk, but as a non-DOS partition. Your best bet is to fdisk, delete the partition, and create a new one. Shouldn't be a problem from there.

y would you want to go from XP to 98??

Anyways, u will have to use fdisk to delete the C partition, create it and use format to format it to FAT32, cause 98 cant read NTFS

If u can boot to XP, then just use the format command and reformat the other partition to FAT and install 98 on that drive. If u can only boot to 98, then u need to go to the console in the XP recovery disk and rewrite the MBR to allow dual booting to 98 and XP.

If u can boot anything at all, use another computer to create a DOS startup disk, and then use fdisk to repair the partitions and reinstall either 98 or XP.

thanks u guys, problem solved!

and fc34, i borowed XP and messed it up bad so i had to reinstall an OS and only have 98.....plus, as far as i know the dreamcast to PC hookup only works with 98