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formatted hard drive with xp

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formated my hard drive(6.5 gig) cant re load windows 95 or 98 NTLDR is missing cant boot to dos i guess xp has no dos i need to create a dos boot partition please help

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Go to bootdisk.com and download a bootdisk image. Win85b or later with large disk support. Create the bootdisk. Boot from the disk. Run fdisk.exe. Delete any patitions. Create a primary partition. Majke it active. Reboot uing the floppy. Format the disk, just type "format /s" without the quotes. Th"/s" makes the Hdd bootable. After formting is finished reboot without the floppy in the drive. Failing the above partion magic 7 should sort it out. Good luck Mark

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