May i know how to format my HDD using FDISK if the bios does not recongise my floppy drive, on some occasion even display the blue screen implying the HDD is faulty. I can't seem to access my floppy as i have tried to format the hdd once but quit half-way thus i need to re-format it now without using the actual boot disk. Pleas enlighten me on this matter thanks!

Hi Lebron

Are you trying to get shut of 98 or an NT based OS, ie 2000, XP etc?

I am trying to boot windows XP. Initially had 2 partitions but they went awry and i tried to format them, i had an OS then i tried to format it but the boot disc took too long to format twice as long as normal. Currently i'm trying to format in dos mode but to no avail as it keeps on failing in reading my floppy drive.

Either the floppy drive is not connected securely or the ribbon cable could be the wrong way round, (way to tell is if the floppy drive light is on all the time).
If you do get your floppy drive active you need the 98 boot disk and at the A:/ prompt type Fdisk.
Examine the partitions and choose to delete all non-dos partitions.
If you want to install XP again don't even bother formatting the hdd just make a primary dos partion.

To boot and format with the XP cd make sure the bios is set so the first boot option is the cdrom.
Insert the XP disk and, after it's looked at your system choose to format from there.