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HELP!!!formated a hard disk on a 486 cant install nothing!
Name: Spaceace_64 Date: July 11, 1999 at 20:00:33 Pacific
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I formatted the hard drive on a 486 and now i cant get it to install windows 3.1 can anyone help me.If so you are a prayer answered!Thanx!
Name: Clay Date: July 12, 1999 at 10:26:38 Pacific
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send me an email detailling exactly what you have done... itll be an easy one :)
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Response Number 2
Name: Spaceace_64 Date: July 15, 1999 at 14:33:32 Pacific
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I got it to install by using a bootdisk from 98 but It says i need to do something to the config.sys to get 3.11 to run but I cant get in it.Can you help?THANX!
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Response Number 3
Name: Karen Chisham Date: July 17, 1999 at 16:59:15 Pacific
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Same problem, fdisked, formated c:\, and it will not let me install or setup anythin onto the c:\ even though c: is the active partitioned drive. I've tried everything at one point I found bad sectors on cylingers 1 - 12 but I dont't know how to fix them if I can't get anything to read drive c: my hardrive. Right I am on my pentium so as to get some help loading windows 95 onto my 486, I can't even get msdos onto the hardrive. Please, help!!!!
Thank you Karen Chisham
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Response Number 4
Name: Terry Hoffpauir Date: July 18, 1999 at 10:48:34 Pacific
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I think that with a boot in A:\format c:\. Then run FDISK to partition. Then format each partition, should work. The first format should clean up the disk, if you have bad area in the boot sector you can't load anything there. I hope this is a help, if not maybe someone else with know.
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Response Number 5
Name: teshouka Date: August 12, 1999 at 20:49:49 Pacific
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if you reformatted your c drive ( hard drive ) then you will have to go into the cmos or bios setup file - that should still be there, and reset the boot sequence so it will read from your floppy disk drives first. then of course when you have some software re-installed you will have to reset the bios or cmos boot sequence to the appropriate settings.
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Response Number 6
Name: sandman6 Date: August 16, 1999 at 19:55:44 Pacific
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Karen, put scandisk.exe and scandisk.ini on that bootdisk.....reboot with that bootdisk....at the a: prompt type scandisk c: and press enter.....do a full scan including a surface scan
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