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Problems after format -LOST!
Name: poftheu Date: April 5, 2005 at 10:16:41 Pacific OS: Win98 CPU/Ram: pentium
Comment:
A friend has this old laptop that had win95. We installed Win98se and it had several problems. She asked that I just erase everything and start over. So I formatted c and put the 98 boot disk in A...now all I get is "no partition" then prompt sits on A: and won't see the cd-rom or c. I can play on the floppy all day...nothing else. What is the best solution? Oh, and the laptop do not have internet access yet. Pleeeease help. PoftheU
Name: jboy Date: April 5, 2005 at 10:24:51 Pacific
Reply:
Older versions of 95 wouldn't recognize FAT32 (large) drive partitions - you said you're using a 98 bootdisk - is that right?? What version of 95 is involved?
Run fdisk and select (4) to view partition information and see if the drive is FAT16 or FAT32
CD-ROM access from DOS requires that the drivers be loaded - many bootdisks available that do that
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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Name: rogerashley Date: April 5, 2005 at 10:30:16 Pacific
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Running Win98SE with 1GB ...
