How can you make partitions with FDISK?

At First in CMOS Settings select First boot device as Floppy. I already explained about this in my previous article How To Format the harddisk?. Keep the 98 start up disk in the Floppy Drive then boot the system with floppy. After booting from floppy system will come to A Prompt. At A:\> type FDISK like below then press enter.
A:\>FDISK

It will display message like this. Do you wish to enable large disk support(Y/N)? [Y]
By default Y is selected. So you just press enter. Then it will display Fdisk Options like this.

1.Create Dos partition or Logical Dos drive
2.Set active partition
3.Delete partition or Logical Dos Drive
4.Display partition information.

Enter choice[1]

If it is a new hard disk select option 1. If it is a hard disk already with partitions then select 3 in order to delete the existing partitions first. You will create new partitions after you delete old partitions only.

If you have old partitions then select option 3 and press enter. Then again it will display delete options like this.

1.Delete primary Dos partition
2.Delete Extended Dos partition
3.Delete Logical Dos Drives in Extended Dos partition
4.Delete Non-Dos partition

Generally we do not have Non Dos partition. So select all the three options one by one. First select option 1 then press enter. Then it will give a warning. Again press enter. Then it asks Volume Label of Primary partition. You can observe the Volume label over the top on the same screen. Just type that name and press enter. Some times there is no name for Volume label. In that case just press enter without typing any name. Now it will ask are you sure? Type Y then press enter. Now Primary Dos partition deleted.

Press Esc to continue. Again it will come to Fdisk Options menu. Select 3 to delete partition and press enter. Now first delete Logical Dos Drives in the extended Dos partition like the same as Primary partition deletion. After deleting all Logical Dos Drives in the extended Dos partition press Esc to continue. Again press Esc to continue. Again it will come to Fdisk Options menu. Select 3 to delete partition and press enter. Now delete Extended Dos partition in the same manner as Primary Dos partition. After deleting Extended Dos partition press Esc to continue. Now again it displays Fdisk Options.

Now you can create New partitions. First select Create Dos partition or Logical Dos Drive then press enter. Now select Create primary Dos partition and press enter. It will verifies drive integrity. Then it will display Do you wish to use the maximum size? Press N then press enter. It will again verifies drive integrity. Then it will ask primary Dos partition size. Type the size as you like then press enter. Now it creates Primary Dos partition. Press Esc to continue. Now Fdisk Options menu comes. Now set the Primary Dos partition as Active partition by selecting option 2 then press enter. Then it displays Enter the number of the partition you want to make active. Type 1 then press enter. Now partition 1 made active. Press Esc. Now fdisk Options menu comes. Select Create Dos partition then press enter. Select Create Extended Dos partition then press enter. It verifies drive integrity. It will ask the partition size for Extended Dos partition. Type the remaining space then press enter. Now Extended Dos partition was created. Press Esc. Again it verifies drive integrity. Now you have to create required Logical drives in the Extended Dos partition. Suppose if you want to create 3 logical drives in the extended Dos partition. So now type the first logical drive size then press enter. It verifies drive integrity. Now after verification type the second logical drive size then press enter. Again it verifies drive integrity. Now after verification leave the remaining space for third logical drive then press enter. Now press Esc. Then it comes to Fdisk Options. Now again press Esc to exit Fdisk. It will display a message. Again press Esc to exit Fdisk. It will come to A Prompt.

Now reboot the system without removing the 98 start up disk from the drive. Now system will boot from the 98 start up disk and come to A Prompt. Then for formatting C drive type like this at the A Prompt.
A:\>format C:/S then press enter.
It will give a warning message. Just press Y then press enter. After Format completed then it asks enter a Volume Label. Just press enter. Then it will come to C Prompt. Now you can format D drive by format D: command. You can format E drive by format E: command.

Now you can install Any Windows O.S in your system.

Note:By using Fdisk in Win 98,Win ME bootable disks we can make fdisk partitions of Hard Disks of size upto 64 GB. We can also make partitions of disks greater than 64 GB but Fdisk won't show correct size of partitions. Latest Fdisk can make partitions of high capacity Hard Disks of size greater than 64 GB. Read Latest FDISK article.