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Name: Henry Date: December 25, 1999 at 21:27:09 Pacific
Comment:
Im not sure if this is a dos or win 98 question. but im in dos at the moment. My computer was set up with NT4 and two 2G partitions. I want to install win 98. I have a bootup disk and have partitioned the 4G hard drive into halves. Now when I boot from a: and try to see dir on c: or d: I get ..."invalid media type reading drive c", and the same on drive d. All I want is to reformat with no partitions and a nice clean virus free drive. Please HELP!!!
Name: Igor M Date: December 25, 1999 at 23:07:09 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
After partitioning the drive you need to format it. Boot from diskette and use
Format C: /S
and
Format D:
commands to format both halfs of your drive.
Good luck, Igor M
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Response Number 2
Name: Henry Date: December 26, 1999 at 19:05:39 Pacific
Reply:
Many thanks to Igor M
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Response Number 3
Name: maurice Date: December 27, 1999 at 16:44:06 Pacific
Reply:
i formatted my hard drive from the dos promptand now i can not install windows this is what i type (format c:) is there any thing that i can do thank you
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Response Number 4
Name: Dean Date: December 29, 1999 at 15:35:03 Pacific
Reply:
Need more info. Why can't you install Windows? Do you have a CD rom drive? Do you have a dos bootable cd rom diskette ? As mentioned above, you'll need to boot from a dos disk and use format c:/s to transfer system files so your C: drive is bootable.
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