Need some NT help, please......

[zipulrich]

Friend had an NT4 workstation given to her (on a Dell Optiplex P2-350, 64Mb Ram). She asked me to format and install Win98 (which she's comfortable with).

Trying to get it to boot off Start-up disk, so I can FDISK. Just isn't happening. Any advice? Need more info? Just ask.....

[Kiddtek]

You need to check the boot order in the BIOS. Make sure it's set to boot from Floopy first, then IDE.

[zipulrich]

Thanks for the reply.

Yeah, it is. Any other tips???

[tobmello]

are you sure the win98 startup boot floppy isn't corrupted somehow? what happens when you try to boot? Does it give you a non-system disk error, does it look like the floppy drive is even being accessed during the boot sequence, or does it boot straight to NT ?

on the surface, if the boot order in the bios is set to boot to floppy first, and you have a valid win98 startup floppy, then you should be able to boot to it....(download a win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com just in case and try it again)

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[zipulrich]

Got it!

Turns out this thing had some admin passwords. I used a utility called Snadboy's Revelation to lift the passwords. Did a low-level format, installed Win98, and all is well. Thanks all!