WarPiper wrote:
ok
1) the computer is ancient (think about 3 to 4 years, no bios updates, Gateway crap)
2) windoze 98se does detect the drive as a removable drive, but there is no way of making partitions, but does act like I can make one giant partition the whole 200 Gigs
3) Fdisk does not recognize the drive when displaying partition information
4) the drive is a Maxtor diamondmax 200 Gb Ultra ata133 IDE hard drive installed in a external firewire box (made to do so), when loading from win2kpro boot floppies, win2k setup would partition it, but not install the OS, I am tring to make 8 partitions at 25 Gb each for use as either storage only or to also nclude a OS for use as a dual boot.
Firstly you would need a Very modern BIOS that can boot from the Firewire... it might be an I dea to see if DOS will install on it. You shouldn't need Fdisk, as you can format the thing in Windows.
I think if the drive is assigned to C: win2k should install. Unplug any other hard drive so that the firewire gets the first large Drive letter (C:). Use the Win2k boot floppies to install.
That's how I would do it...
or if that didn't work, simply install Win2k with the drive attached to the IDE and then put it in the Firewire box.
