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Invalid Media Type Reading Drive C
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Original Message
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Name: chatham98
Date: April 14, 2001 at 06:34:44 Pacific
Subject: Invalid Media Type Reading Drive C
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Comment: I AM RUNNING WIN98 ON A COMPAQ PRESARIO 266. I DEFRAGED THE HARD DRIVE, RAN A UTILITY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO CLEAN THE REGISTRY, AND WHEN I REBOOT I AM GETTING A
"TYPE THE NAME OF THE COMMAND INTERPERTER {E.G., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM}
C>" WHEN I BOOT FROM FLOPPY
{98 START UP DISK}IT STILL WON'T READ THE C: DRIVE. WHEN I TRY IT SAYS INVALID MEDIA TYPE READING DRIVE C: ABORT, RETRY, FAIL? HOW CAN I BOOT UP WITHOUT HAVING TO FORMAT C AND REINSTALL WIN98 ? YOUR HELP IS APPRECIATED
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Response Number 1
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Name: Sterling Augustine
Date: April 14, 2001 at 07:43:41 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)It sounds like you hosed the drive. FDISK, delete all of the partitions, format, and then reinstall Windows. P.S.: Caps lock is rude and considered "yelling".
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Response Number 2
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Name: Ellis
Date: April 14, 2001 at 10:12:25 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Before you FDISK and Format try the following - FDISK /MBR
SYS C: This will recreate the Master Boot Record, and transfer the OS to the C drive again. Check your BIOS settings for the Hard Drive as well...
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Response Number 3
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Name: Travis
Date: April 14, 2001 at 15:20:01 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I had the exact same problem. I fdisk and deleted partition and created new one, and reformated and it still wouldn't read from c:. Come to find out, hard drive is fried!
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Response Number 4
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Name: Toe Mouse
Date: April 15, 2001 at 11:06:31 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)If you still haven't formatted your drive and are still getting the unexpected 'invalid media type' message you could try to restore the drive using MBRWork. You'll have to use a search engine to find it, but it's supposed to be able to restore drives that got accidently FDISKed
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