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HELP !!!! Please. I have reformatted my HDD to reinstall Win 95. Even after using fdisk & format command dos keeps on coming up with "invalid media type" . I removed the HDD from this computer and installed in another pc and reformatted under win 95. It still comes up with the same message.
Name: graeme Date: June 10, 1999 at 00:10:42 Pacific
Reply:
Ewww....hmmm...have you tried fdisk /mbr
this attempts to fix the master boot record...it is the only thing I can think of that might remotely fix what you are describing
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Response Number 2
Name: Igor M Date: June 10, 1999 at 01:51:03 Pacific
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Hi,
I think this kind of error can arise if you formated your drive in FAT32 and then use boot disk with FAT16 (e.g. DOS 6.22). If your drive is accessible in that another computer where you have it formated, check what file system is on your drive after all.
Good luck, Igor M
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Response Number 3
Name: francis Date: June 17, 1999 at 13:44:19 Pacific
Reply:
1...Use Norton Diskdoctor/Diskedit to recover your Fat/Master boot record 2...Fdisk..(Any DOS will do meanwhile) 3...Run Sys.com from your dos install disk 1. 4...Format C:/U/S
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