Windows problem (besides being windows)

[Jon M. Hanson]

eculbert wrote:
> I have hard drives setup for linux...in either ext2 or
> ext3 format.
>
> I was trying to 'wipe one' via installing w98 and get
> 'operating system not found' as soon as it accesses
> the cdrom...at least right after the bios boots. Works
> fb with linux live cd's or when no cd and boots into
> linux distro.
>
> Is or does the windows have to see a partition it can
> write to already on the hd.
>
> I need windows for some special windows only thing I
> want to do. 
>
> So do I first need to use a live distro and
> wipe/format to 32 bit windows format or such to
> install w98 so I can run this one program?
>
> Ed
>
> Ed/ke7feg
>
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Windows won't care what's there previously. It will just format it 
FAT32. I'm guessing your problem is that your BIOS is set to check for 
the hard drive to boot from before the CD-ROM. Try checking that.

Why not just run Windows inside a virtual machine inside Linux instead 
of wiping out what you already have installed?