HP OmniBook xe3-gc HP OmniBook XE3 Series - Corporate Evaluator's Guide - Page 93
In the File System Partition select Create FAT16 partition or Create - remove cd
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Using Windows 98 Installing Retail Windows 98 Second Edition 2. Open the MS-DOS Prompt. 3. Go to the \HP\BOOTDISK directory on the Recovery CD. If D: is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive, type: D: CD \HP\BOOTDISK 4. Type MAKESUPP. 5. When asked to select a Floppy drive, type A. 6. Type Y to acknowledge warning and continue. 7. Insert a blank floppy disk in the A: drive and press any key to continue. 8. When copy is complete, type N. 9. Close the MS-DOS Prompt. HP recommends that you repartition and format your hard disk before installing retail Windows 98 Second Edition. Follow the instructions below to partition your hard disk and create the hibernation partition. 1. Insert the bootable Recovery CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive. 2. Boot the OmniBook, press ESC twice and select the CD-ROM/DVD as the boot device. 3. Click "Continue" on the Recovery screen to enter the menu. 4. Click "Advanced" on the Recovery CD-ROM menu. 5. Click the option "Do not load operating system". 6. Choose the size of your hibernation partition, default (recommended) is 256MB. 7. In the "File System Partition" section, select "Create FAT16 partition" or "Create FAT32 partition" depending which partition type you need. (If you are installing Windows NT 4.0, you will mandatory need a FAT 16 partition). 8. Click "Continue" to start repartitioning. 9. Click OK to acknowledge the chosen hibernation partition size. 10. When message "Remove CD and press any key to shutdown computer." appears on screen, remove the recovery CD-ROM. A hibernation partition and a C: partition (FAT16 or FAT32) has been created and formatted for you. Hewlett-Packard's HW diagnostics software has been placed on the hibernation partition. To use this HW diagnostics software in the future, press F10 during boot of the system. 11. Boot from the Support Utility Disk you previously created, Corporate Evaluator's Guide 93