Drive A won't let me FDisk

Thanks for the good news. But please clear something up for me.

If you are indeed speaking of the Boot Sequence in the BIOS Why do you have to change it ?

Every machine that I have the sequence is set to A: > CDROM: >HD:

If there is no disk in A or CDROM then will go right to the HD.

BillyBob

 

Actually some older laptops and really old desktops had BIOS that did not have "Boot Order" - Instead they had a "Boot Target Device ".

If the boot target device did not contain the proper boot files you would get "Operating system not found ".

My Hitachi Visionbook 4360 (Pentium 166) has this type of BIOS and early VESA based Pentium desktop motherboards also were this way.

 

Profgab101

Thank you for clearing things up for me.

BillyBob

 

BillyBob,
The F1 Setup option in Bios on this older NEC machine had the option named boot options...

There werw 3 boot option lists that said boot option one, boot option two,etc.

In boot option one and only in boot option one it listed Floppy,CDROM, Hard Disk,and something else I do not remember....

Boot options 2 and 3 didnot have CDROM as an option...just floppy A, Floppy B, and Hard Disk....

All I did was choose CDROM for the boot option one and save the new settings and the machine allowed me to type in Fdisk in MS DOS ..
After the Fdisk and Format I had to go back into the boot options and change CDROM back to Boot from Hard disk....before the new installed 98SE would actually work...
Don't ask me exactly what I did because I went on instinct at a point.

Everything worked out fine in the end so I must have done the right thing at the right time...all I did was follow what I felt was the most logical , simplest path....

Thanks for all the great help,,,