Windows 98 Scandisk installation help?

Question

When I try to install windows 98 onto my modern pc, it sees that I have an ext3-formatted partition (Ubuntu), and initiates Scandisk. This would be fine, except that my hard drive is 92GB, and it would take more than a day to do this, which is unacceptable.

Any way to disable this?

Answer 1

No (and yes, read forward...), you cannot install windows 98 to an ext3 formatted HDD.

ext3 file system is only for Linux, BSD, Windows NT, IBM OS/2. Windows 98 won't recognize that file system and hence won't install or continuously keep checking that HDD.

One way to install Windows 98 is by re-formatting (full) the 92 GB HDD in a  NTFS (recommended) file system or FAT32 file system (not recommended, less security levels). Then scandisk won't interrput again.

Answer 2

When dual booting, you always need to microsoft products on first. They don't like to share.

Why 98? Granted, 98 was their last decent OS, but I really doubt your modern hardware will be supported in any way.

If you really need 98, load it in Ubuntu in VMware