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Invalid media reading drive C:\!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Name: Tornado_warning Date: February 13, 2001 at 15:27:14 Pacific
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Some how I deleted win 95. I made a boot disk from win 98 (Could not find win 3.1 boot disk). I went to the command prompt to reinstall windows, but after the cpu read the setup.ini file, It said to "Where to install". So I put C:\win. It Would NOT let me. So I went back to the prompt and said missing operating system. So I went to the command prompt again and typed C:\dir. A message came up saying "Invalid media type reading drive C:\. Is there any way to fix this and reinstall windows 3.1? If so, how?
Name: Lispeb Date: February 13, 2001 at 18:20:26 Pacific
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Are you on a Compaq by any chance ? Some Compaq BIOS's have DOS emulation built in so that you think you're running DOS, but it's really just a DOS-like interface shell. In any case, you will probably have to format C: by booting from a DOS floppy disk and running the format command on the Windows Setup CD. This should run fine from a Windows 98 bootdisk.
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Response Number 2
Name: Chris Hodapp Date: February 17, 2001 at 11:57:59 Pacific
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Invalid Media Type is the error reported when the hard disk needs to be formatted, after it's been partitioned. Hopefully you did this on purpose....
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Response Number 3
Name: Jared Date: February 18, 2001 at 04:00:30 Pacific
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Yeah this has happened to me with win 95 you will need to use a bootdisk with fdisk.exe and format.com on it. boot the computer and use fdisk to create a primary dos partition. once you have done this go to your a: and type format c: hope this helps jared
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Response Number 4
Name: Mr. bhalchandra Date: May 29, 2001 at 06:06:26 Pacific
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I just shift the hard drive to another computer and i start get above messge , i also want to take back of the hard drive please suggest some helpful hints ,
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