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I have a brand new athlon 1600 xp k266a,it was delivered with wind xp,I also
wanted wind 98,so I formated then loaded wind 98,then used partition magic 7
to create a partition for xp,I also made xp fat 32,all was well with the
sysytem until 3 days ago,I started a virus scan using norton,it informed be
during the boot check,that the boot sequence was corrupt and did I wish to
repair,me being stoopid said yes.Now when I boot,I get stuck in the boot,where it registers my athlon xp then
shows the drive being primary 19gb total 40gb,I have tried everything to get
into c drive,when I run windows 98 boot disk using fdisk,it says no disks
detected,I get the same with xp boot disk,I even used fdisk/mbr as someone
mentioned,I can however access the bios but I cannot see anything that would
aid me in there,I even tried a special programe for boot corruption,but it
gave the same message no disk detected,it did however state I should try and
reset the cmos,I tried doing as my manual stated with reseting the cmos,but this made no
difference,I wonder if I am reseting cmos incorrectly,because also under the
bios it still says under high performance there was an error while loading
please reset cmos,this mesage has been there since I formated 3 weeks ago,so
am I reseting correctly,what I did was switch off pc move the jumper to slot
1 2 which manual states removes all info,then before I switched on again,I
replaced to slots 2 3,after I rebooted it does say changes have been made to
cmos,what do you wish to do,1 option is f1 which just loads the bios
again,which is of little use.I would be really gratefull of anyhelp with this,if you can maybe say a way
to create a new boot,or even if i loose all my data on c drive,I only want
my drive back the full 40gb,I got myself into this mess becuse when I tried
to create a rescue disk with part magic 7,there was an error,so I have no
rescue from them,it was a freind of a freinds program so tech support is out
of the question here.Sorry this post is so long,but i am in despair,being a new pc an all,thank
you Steve.

Kino/Steve,
I'm kinda confused. I read and re-read your post, but I don't see anything in it about BeOS. You mention Windows XP and Windows 98, but there's no mention of BeOS. It looks like you screwed up some logical disk structures. I don't understand what this has to do with BeOS. This doesn't look like a BeOS issue. Do you even HAVE BeOS?

athlon xp isn't suited to boot BeOS unless u use instructions on http://www.s82.nl/ to apply a kernel patch

You may haveta reformat & reload everthing back into your drive. It seems like you have an ActiveX or JAVA virus currupting your system. These are very common to hacker attacks. I assume you booted the drive with win98? If it does that again, take it to the company tech & demand they fix it. Please be advised that this is only my opinion. Have you tried DriveUp?

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